blendImputations: Blend model results according to calculated proportions

In saharaja/imputeORS: Impute Missing Values in the BLS Occupational Requirements Survey

Description

Our method involves imputing missing values using both SOC2 and SOC3 smart guessed data as the initial prediction (Iteration 0). These two models' results are then blended using the convergence and blending information calculated from the k-folds cross validation stage of the analysis. These blended results constitute the final imputations for the missing values.

Usage

blendImputations(
  model.results.soc2,
  model.results.soc3,
  conv.iter.soc2,
  conv.iter.soc3,
  soc2.prop,
  soc3.prop,
  ors.data.sims,
  write.files = FALSE
)

Arguments

model.results.soc2	Results of iterative modeling, usually from SOC2 smart guessed data (output of iterateModel())
model.results.soc3	Results of iterative modeling, usually from SOC3 smart guessed data (output of iterateModel())
conv.iter.soc2	Convergence iteration of model.results.soc2 (calculated by computeConvergence())
conv.iter.soc3	Convergence iteration of model.results.soc3 (calculated by computeConvergence())
soc2.prop	Contribution of model.results.soc2 to blending (calculated by computeBlendingRatio())
soc3.prop	Contribution of model.results.soc3 to blending (calculated by computeBlendingRatio())
ors.data.sims	Original data augmented with relevant predictors, i.e. all records, including both known and missing estimates, as well as simulated data (output of computeSimulations())
write.files	Should results be written to .csv and .Rdata files; default is FALSE (do not write files)

Value

Data frame containing all predictors for each observation, along with blended results, i.e. simulated values for known estimates, weighted average of predicted values from each simulation at the specified iterations for missing estimates, and a mean value calculated across all simulations (for known estimates, this is simply the actual value)

See Also

computeSimulations()

iterateModel()

computeMeanPredictions()

computeConvergence()

computeBlendingRatio()

saharaja/imputeORS documentation built on Feb. 4, 2022, 12:27 a.m.