latrend: Cluster longitudinal data using the specified method

Description

An overview of the latrend package and its capabilities can be found here.

The latrend() function fits a specified longitudinal cluster method to the given data comprising the trajectories.

This function runs all steps of the standardized method estimation procedure, as implemented by the given lcMethod object. The result of this procedure is the estimated lcModel.

Usage

latrend(
  method,
  data,
  ...,
  envir = NULL,
  verbose = getOption("latrend.verbose")
)

Value

A lcModel object representing the fitted solution.

Arguments

method: An lcMethod object specifying the longitudinal cluster method to apply, or the name (as character) of the lcMethod subclass to instantiate.
data: The data of the trajectories to which to estimate the method for. Any inputs supported by trajectories() can be used, including data.frame and matrix.
...: Any other arguments to update the lcMethod definition with.
envir: The environment in which to evaluate the method arguments via compose(). If the data argument is of type call then this environment is also used to evaluate the data argument.
verbose: The level of verbosity. Either an object of class Verbose (see R.utils::Verbose for details), a logical indicating whether to show basic computation information, a numeric indicating the verbosity level (see Verbose), or one of c('info', 'fine', 'finest').

Details

If a seed value is specified in the lcMethod object or arguments to latrend, this seed is set using set.seed prior to the preFit step.

Examples

Run this code

data(latrendData)
method <- lcMethodLMKM(Y ~ Time, id = "Id", time = "Time")
model <- latrend(method, data = latrendData)

model <- latrend("lcMethodLMKM", formula = Y ~ Time, id = "Id", time = "Time", data = latrendData)

model <- latrend(method, data = latrendData, nClusters = 3, seed = 1)