Generate Simulated Subjects

Usage

sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for SimLongitudinalClaretBruno
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for SimLongitudinalGSF
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for SimLongitudinalRandomSlope
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for SimLongitudinalSteinFojo
sampleSubjects(object, subjects_df)

# S3 method for 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.