privacyR (version 1.0.1)

anonymize_age: Anonymize Age by Buckets

Description

Groups ages into buckets for privacy protection. Default uses 10-year buckets (0-9, 10-19, etc.) which are useful for research. Ages 90+ are grouped together.

Usage

anonymize_age(x, method = c("10year", "hipaa"), custom_buckets = NULL)

Value

A character vector of age buckets

Arguments

x

A numeric vector of ages to anonymize

method

Character string specifying bucketing method: "10year" (default) uses 10-year buckets: 0-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80-89, 90+ "hipaa" uses HIPAA-compliant buckets: 0-17, 18-64, 65-89, 90+

custom_buckets

Optional named numeric vector for custom buckets. Format: c("0-9" = 9, "10-19" = 19, "20-29" = 29, "90+" = Inf)

Examples

ages <- c(25, 45, 67, 92, 15, 78)
anonymize_age(ages)  # Uses 10-year buckets by default
anonymize_age(ages, method = "hipaa")  # Use HIPAA buckets