Simulation reusing ETA values from
estimation run or otherwise specified ETA values. For observed subjects, this is refered to as emperical Bayes
estimates (EBE). The .phi file from the estimation run must be found
next to the .lst file from the estimation.This means that ID
values in the (simulation) input data must be ID values that were
used in the estimation too. Runs an $ESTIMATION MAXEVAL=0
but pulls in ETAs for the ID's found in data. No
$SIMULATION
step is run which may affect how for instance
residual variability is simulated, if at all. You can also specify a different .phi
file which can be a simulation result.
Arguments
- file.sim
The path to the control stream to be edited. This function overwrites the contents of the file pointed to by file.sim.
- file.mod
Path to the path to the original input control stream provided as `file.mod` to `NMsim()`.
- data.sim
See
?NMsim
.- file.phi
A phi file to take the known subjects from. The default is to replace the filename extension on file.mod with .phi. A different .phi file would be used if you want to reuse subjects simulated in a previous simulation.
- return.text
If TRUE, just the text will be returned, and resulting control stream is not written to file.