impute_ages

Generic function to impute ages from min/max ranges. Works for both
participant and contact data by specifying the column prefix.

internal

Provides methods for sampling contact matrices from diary
data for use in infectious disease modelling, as discussed in Mossong
et al. (2008) <doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050074>.

Sebastian Funk

socialmixr

Social Mixing Matrices for Infectious Disease Modelling

Lander Willem

Hugo Gruson

Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar

Carl A. B. Pearson

Sam Clifford

Christopher Jarvis

Alexis Robert

Niel Hens

Pietro Coletti

Lloyd Chapman

impute_ages function

<dl><dt>data</dt>
<dd>A data.table containing age data</dd>
<dt>prefix</dt>
<dd>Column name prefix: "part_age" for participants, "cnt_age" for
contacts</dd>
<dt>estimate</dt>
<dd>Imputation method: "mean", "sample", or "missing"</dd></dl>

Arguments

Impute ages from ranges (generic helper) — impute_ages

<dl>

<dt>data</dt>
<dd>A data.table containing age data</dd>


<dt>prefix</dt>
<dd>Column name prefix: "part_age" for participants, "cnt_age" for
contacts</dd>


<dt>estimate</dt>
<dd>Imputation method: "mean", "sample", or "missing"</dd>

</dl>

Impute ages from ranges (generic helper)

impute_ages: Impute ages from ranges (generic helper)

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