Creates a CohortMethodData object with simulated data.
simulateCohortMethodData(profile, n = 10000)Arguments
- profile
An object of type
CohortMethodDataSimulationProfileas generated using thecreateCohortMethodDataSimulationProfile()function.- n
The size of the population to be generated.
Value
An object of type CohortMethodData.
Details
This function generates simulated data that is in many ways similar to the original data on which the simulation profile is based. The contains same outcome, comparator, and outcome concept IDs, and the covariates and their 1st order statistics should be comparable.