intfunc function

Execute Intervention

This internal function executes the intervention of interest on the specified intervention variable in the data table newdf.

intfunc(newdf, pool, intervention, intvar, int_time, time_name, t)

Arguments

• newdf: Data table containing the simulated data at time $t$.
• pool: Data table containing the simulated data at times before $t$.
• intervention: List, whose elements are lists of vectors. Each vector contains a function implementing a particular intervention on a single variable, optionally followed by one or more "intervention values" (i.e., integers used to specify the treatment regime).
• intvar: Character string specifying the name of the variable to be intervened on in each round of the simulation.
• int_time: Vector specifying the time points in which the intervention is applied.
• time_name: Character string specifying the name of the time variable in pool and newdf.
• t: Integer specifying the current time index.

Returns

No value is returned. The data table newdf is modified in place.