transform.amelia {Amelia} | R Documentation |
Transform imputed datasets from Amelia objects
Description
Updates the imputed datasets from an amelia
output
with the specified transformations.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'amelia'
transform(`_data`, ...)
Arguments
_data |
an object of class "amelia"; typically output from the
function |
... |
further arguments of the form |
Details
The ...
arugments to transform.amelia
are
expressions of the form tag = value
, where tag
is the
variable that is being updated or created and value
is an
expression that is a function of the variables in the imputed
datasets. For instance, if you wanted to create an interaction of two
imputed variables, you could have one argument be intervar =
var1 * var2
. This would either update the current variable
intervar
in the imputed data or append a new variable called
intervar
to the imputed datasets.
Value
An object of class amelia
with its imputations
and
missMatrix
values updated according to the transformations. In
addition, each of the calls to transform.amelia
are stored in