impute function

Imputing a numeric or character vector

This function is a very simple function to impute a numeric or character vector with the mean or median value of the vector.

imputev(x, method="median",by=NULL)

Arguments

• x: a numeric or character vector.
• method: the method to choose between mean or median.
• by: the level at which imputation will be done.

Returns

• $x: a numeric or character vector imputed with the method selected.

References

Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran (2024). lme4breeding: enabling genetic evaluation in the age of genomic data. To be submitted to Bioinformatics.

Douglas Bates, Martin Maechler, Ben Bolker, Steve Walker (2015). Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software, 67(1), 1-48.

Author(s)

Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran

Examples

set.seed(1253)
x <- rnorm(100)
x[sample(1:100,10)] <- NA
imputev(x)

See Also

The core function of the package lmebreed