simFrame (version 0.5.0)

DataControl-class: Class "DataControl"

Description

Class for controlling model-based generation of data.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("DataControl", ...) or DataControl(...).

Extends

Class "VirtualDataControl", directly. Class "OptDataControl", by class "VirtualDataControl", distance 2.

UML class diagram

A slightly simplified UML class diagram of the framework can be found in Figure 1 of the package vignette An Object-Oriented Framework for Statistical Simulation: The RPackage simFrame. Use vignette("simFrame-intro") to view this vignette.

References

Alfons, A., Templ, M. and Filzmoser, P. (2010) An Object-Oriented Framework for Statistical Simulation: The RPackage simFrame. Journal of Statistical Software, 37(3), 1--36. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v37/i03/.

See Also

"VirtualDataControl", generate

Examples

require(mvtnorm)
mean <- rep(0, 2)
sigma <- matrix(c(1, 0.5, 0.5, 1), 2, 2)
dc <- DataControl(size = 10, distribution = rmvnorm, 
    dots = list(mean = mean, sigma = sigma))
generate(dc)