R: Simulate the household structure of population data
simStructure
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Simulate the household structure of population data
Description
Simulate basic categorical variables that define the household structure
(typically variables such as household ID, age and gender) of population
data by resampling from survey data.
an object of class dataObj containing household survey
data that is usually generated with specifyInput.
method
a character string specifying the method to be used for
simulating the household sizes. Accepted values are "direct"
(estimation of the population totals for each combination of stratum and
household size using the Horvitz-Thompson estimator), "multinom"
(estimation of the conditional probabilities within the strata using a
multinomial log-linear model and random draws from the resulting
distributions), or "distribution" (random draws from the observed
conditional distributions within the strata).
basicHHvars
a character vector specifying important variables for the
household structure that need to be available in dataS. Typically
variables such as age or sex may be used.
seed
optional; an integer value to be used as the seed of the random
number generator, or an integer vector containing the state of the random
number generator to be restored.
Value
An object of class simPopObj containing the simulated
population household structure as well as the underlying sample that was
provided as input.
Note
The function sample is used, which gives results
incompatible with those from < 2.2.0 and produces a warning the first time
this happens in a session.