simglm (version 0.8.0)

sim_factor: Simulate categorical, factor, or discrete variables

Description

Function that simulates discrete, factor, or categorical variables. Is essentially a wrapper around the sample function from base R.

Usage

sim_factor(
  k = NULL,
  n,
  p,
  numlevels,
  var_type = c("level1", "level2", "level3", "single"),
  ...
)

Arguments

k

Number of third level clusters.

n

Number of clusters or number of observations for single level

p

Number of within cluster observations for multilevel

numlevels

Scalar indicating the number of levels for categorical, factor, or discrete variable

var_type

Variable type for the variable, must be either "level1", "level2", "level3", or "single"

...

Additional parameters passed to the sample function.