ContControl-class {simFrame}R Documentation

Class "ContControl"

Description

Virtual class for controlling contamination in a simulation experiment for internal use.

Objects from the Class

A virtual Class: No objects may be created from it.

Slots

target:
Object of class "OptCharacter"; a character vector specifying specifying the variables (columns) to be contaminated, or NULL to contaminate all variables (except the additional ones generated internally).
epsilon:
Object of class "numeric" giving the contamination levels.
group:
Object of class "character" specifying a variable (column) to be used for contaminating whole groups rather than individual observations.
aux:
Object of class "character" specifying an auxiliary variable (column) whose values are used as probability weights for selecting the items (observations or groups) to be contaminated.

Extends

Class "VirtualContControl", directly. Class "OptContControl", by class "VirtualContControl", distance 2.

Methods

contaminate
signature(x = "data.frame", control = "ContControl"): contaminate data.

Author(s)

Andreas Alfons, alfons@statistik.tuwien.ac.at

See Also

DCARContControl, DARContControl, VirtualContControl, contaminate

Examples

showClass("ContControl")

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