PathSelectMP (version 1.1)

NumCat: Number of Categories

Description

used as a helper function to return number of categories of categorical variable

Usage

NumCat(ColDes, DataMat, NADes)

Arguments

ColDes

which column number is the number for the data vector for which number of unique categories to be returned

DataMat

this the dataframe or can be a matrix of data with different variables as the columns

NADes

this is the value to be used for the missing category of data

Value

comp1

returns numeric value of number of unique categories excluding missing category for vector of data

Details

helper function which specifies number of unique categories excluding missing category of a column of a dataframe or matrix

References

No References

Examples

# NOT RUN {
InitD=Simulate(MissingYN=1)
NumCat(2,InitD,c(-99))
# }