correctSingleHeap {simPop}

correctSingleHeap

Description

Correct a specific age heap in a vector containing age in years

Usage

correctSingleHeap(
  x,
  heap,
  before = 2,
  after = 2,
  method = "lnorm",
  fixed = NULL
)

Arguments

x

numeric vector representing age in years (integers)

heap

numeric or integer vector of length 1 specifying the year for which a heap should be corrected

before

numeric or integer vector of length 1 specifying the number of years before the heap that may be used to correct the heap. This input will be rounded!

after

numeric or integer vector of length 1 specifying the number of years after the heap that may be used to correct the heap. This input will be rounded!

• 5year: heaps are assumed to be every 5 years (0,5,10,...)

• 10year: heaps are assumed to be every 10 years (0,10,20,...)

method

a character specifying the algorithm used to correct the age heaps. Allowed values are

• lnorm: drawing from a truncated log-normal distribution. The required parameters are estimated using original input data.

• norm: drawing from a truncated normal distribution. The required parameters are estimated using original input data.

• unif: random sampling from a (truncated) uniform distribution

fixed

numeric index vector with observation that should not be changed

Value

a numeric vector without age heaps

Author(s)

Matthias Templ, Bernhard Meindl, Alexander Kowarik

Examples

## create some artificial data
age <- rlnorm(10000, meanlog=2.466869, sdlog=1.652772)
age <- round(age[age < 93])
barplot(table(age))

## artificially introduce an age heap for a specific year
## and correct it
age23 <- c(age, rep(23, length=sum(age==23)))
cc23 <- rep("darkgrey", length(unique(age)))
cc23[24] <- "yellow"
barplot(table(age23), col=cc23)
barplot(table(correctSingleHeap(age23, heap=23, before=2, after=3, method="lnorm")), col=cc23)
barplot(table(correctSingleHeap(age23, heap=23, before=5, after=5, method="lnorm")), col=cc23)

# the first 5 observations should be unchanged
barplot(table(correctSingleHeap(age23, heap=23, before=5, after=5, method="lnorm",
  fixed=1:5)), col=cc23)