compare: Comparison of synthesised and observed data

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Comparison of synthesised and observed data

Description

A generic function for comparison of synthesised and observed data. The function invokes particular methods which depend on the class of the first argument.

Usage

 compare(object, data, ...)

Arguments

object	a synthetic data object of class synds or fit.synds.
data	an original observed data set.
...	additional arguments specific to a method.

Details

Compare methods facilitate quality assessment of synthetic data by comapring them with the original observed data sets. The data themselves (for class synds) or models fitted to them (for class fit.synds) are compared.

Value

The value returned by compare depends on the class of its argument. See the documentation of the particular methods for details.

See Also

compare.synds, compare.fit.synds

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