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syn.bag

Synthesis with bagging

Description

Generates univariate synthetic data using bagging. It uses randomForest function from the randomForest package with number of sampled predictors equal to number of all predictors.

Usage

syn.bag(y, x, xp, smoothing = "", proper = FALSE, ntree = 10, ...)

Arguments

`y`	an original data vector of length `n`.
`x`	a matrix (`n` x `p`) of original covariates.
`xp`	a matrix (`k` x `p`) of synthesised covariates.
`smoothing`	smoothing method for continuous variables.
`proper`	...
`ntree`	number of trees to grow.
`...`	additional parameters passed to `randomForest`.

Details

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Value

A list with two components:

`res`	a vector of length `k` with synthetic values of `y`.
`fit`	the model fitted to the observed data that was used to produce synthetic values.

References

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