addSynthetic {simstudy}

Add synthetic data to existing data set

Description

This function generates synthetic data from an existing data.table and adds it to another (simstudy) data.table.

Usage

addSynthetic(dtOld, dtFrom, vars = NULL, id = "id")

Arguments

dtOld

data.table that is to be modified

dtFrom

Data table that contains the source data

vars

A vector of string names specifying the fields that will be sampled. The default is that all variables will be selected.

id

A string specifying the field that serves as the record id. The default field is "id".

Details

Add synthetic data

Value

A data.table that contains the added synthetic data.

Examples

### Create fake "real" data set - this is the source of the synthetic data

d <- defData(varname = "a", formula = 3, variance = 1, dist = "normal")
d <- defData(d, varname = "b", formula = 5, dist = "poisson")
d <- defData(d, varname = "c", formula = 0.3, dist = "binary")
d <- defData(d, varname = "d", formula = "a + b + 3*c", variance = 2, dist = "normal")

### Create synthetic data set from "observed" data set A (normally this
### would be an actual external data set):

A <- genData(1000, d)

### Generate new simstudy data set (using 'def')

def <- defData(varname = "x", formula = 0, variance = 5)
S <- genData(120, def)

### Create synthetic data from 'A' and add to simulated data in 'S'

S <- addSynthetic(dtOld = S, dtFrom = A, vars = c("b", "d"))