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Generate Simulated Subjects

Source: R/generics.R, R/SimLongitudinalClaretBruno.R, R/SimLongitudinalGSF.R, and 3 more
sampleSubjects.Rd

Generate Simulated Subjects

Usage 

sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for class 'SimLongitudinalClaretBruno'
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for class 'SimLongitudinalGSF'
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for class 'SimLongitudinalRandomSlope'
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for class 'SimLongitudinalSteinFojo'
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for class 'SimSurvival'
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

Arguments

object

(SimLongitudinal or SimSurvival)
object to generate subjects from.

subjects_df

(data.frame)
the subjects to generate observations for. See details.

Details

The subjects_df argument should be a data.frame with 1 row per desired subject to create with the following columns:

  • study (factor) the study identifier.

  • arm (factor) the treatment arm identifier.

  • subject (character) the subject identifier.

This method takes care of generating all the individual subject data required for the sampleObservations method to generate the observations.