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make.formulas

Creates a formulas argument

Description

This helper function creates a valid formulas object. The formulas object is an argument to the mice function. It is a list of formula's that specifies the target variables and the predictors by means of the standard ~ operator.

Usage

make.formulas(data, blocks = make.blocks(data), predictorMatrix = NULL)

Arguments

`data`	A `data.frame` with the source data
`blocks`	An optional specification for blocks of variables in the rows. The default assigns each variable in its own block.
`predictorMatrix`	A `predictorMatrix` specified by the user.

Value

A list of formula's.

Examples

f1 <- make.formulas(nhanes)
f1
f2 <- make.formulas(nhanes, blocks = make.blocks(nhanes, "collect"))
f2

# for editing, it may be easier to work with the character vector
c1 <- as.character(f1)
c1

# fold it back into a formula list
f3 <- name.formulas(lapply(c1, as.formula))
f3

mice

Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations

v3.13.0

GPL-2 | GPL-3

Authors

Stef van Buuren [aut, cre], Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn [aut], Gerko Vink [ctb], Rianne Schouten [ctb], Alexander Robitzsch [ctb], Patrick Rockenschaub [ctb], Lisa Doove [ctb], Shahab Jolani [ctb], Margarita Moreno-Betancur [ctb], Ian White [ctb], Philipp Gaffert [ctb], Florian Meinfelder [ctb], Bernie Gray [ctb], Vincent Arel-Bundock [ctb]

Initial release

2021-01-26