FlexRL (version 0.1.0)

createDataAlpha: createDataAlpha

Description

createDataAlpha

Usage

createDataAlpha(nCoefUnstable, stable)

Value

An empty data frame (if stable=FALSE) with nCoefUnstable + 2 columns for book keeping of the elements necessary to update the parameter for instability. There are nCoefUnstable + 2 of those elements: number of cov from A + number of cov from B + intercept + boolean vector indicating where the true values of the records (for the concerned PIV) are equal, vector of time gaps between records

Arguments

nCoefUnstable

An integer value with the number of covariates (including the intercept): number of cov from A + number of cov from B + 1.

stable

A boolean value indicating whether the Partially Identifying Variable (PIV) concerned is stable.

Examples

PIVs_config = list( V1 = list(stable = TRUE),
                    V2 = list(stable = TRUE),
                    V3 = list(stable = TRUE),
                    V4 = list(stable = TRUE),
                    V5 = list( stable = FALSE,
                               conditionalHazard = FALSE,
                               pSameH.cov.A = c(),
                               pSameH.cov.B = c()) )

PIVs_stable = sapply(PIVs_config, function(x) x$stable)

nCoefUnstable = c(0,0,0,0,1)

Valpha = mapply( createDataAlpha,
                 nCoefUnstable = nCoefUnstable,
                 stable = PIVs_stable,
                 SIMPLIFY=FALSE)