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Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
Title: | Simulation of synthetic complex data: The R package simPop |
Authors: | Templ, Matthias Meindl, Bernhard Kowarik, Alexander Dupriez, Olivier |
DOI: | 10.21256/zhaw-4237 10.18637/jss.v079.i10 |
Published in: | Journal of Statistical Software |
Volume(Issue): | 79 |
Issue: | 10 |
Page(s): | 1 |
Pages to: | 38 |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | UCLA, Dept. of Statistics |
ISSN: | 1548-7660 |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | Microdata; Simulation; Synthetic data; Population data; R |
Subject (DDC): | 005: Computer programming, programs and data 510: Mathematics |
Abstract: | The production of synthetic datasets has been proposed as a statistical disclosure control solution to generate public use files out of protected data, and as a tool to create "augmented datasets" to serve as input for micro-simulation models. Synthetic data have become an important instrument for ex-ante assessments of policy impact. The performance and acceptability of such a tool relies heavily on the quality of the synthetic populations, i.e., on the statistical similarity between the synthetic and the true population of interest. Multiple approaches and tools have been developed to generate synthetic data. These approaches can be categorized into three main groups: synthetic reconstruction, combinatorial optimization, and model-based generation. We provide in this paper a brief overview of these approaches, and introduce simPop, an open source data synthesizer. simPop is a user-friendly R package based on a modular object-oriented concept. It provides a highly optimized S4 class implementation of various methods, including calibration by iterative proportional fitting and simulated annealing, and modeling or data fusion by logistic regression. We demonstrate the use of simPop by creating a synthetic population of Austria, and report on the utility of the resulting data. We conclude with suggestions for further development of the package. |
URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5698 |
Fulltext version: | Published version |
License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY 3.0: Attribution 3.0 Unported |
Departement: | School of Engineering |
Organisational Unit: | Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design (IDP) |
Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Engineering |
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Templ, M., Meindl, B., Kowarik, A., & Dupriez, O. (2017). Simulation of synthetic complex data: The R package simPop. Journal of Statistical Software, 79(10), 1–38. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4237
Templ, M. et al. (2017) ‘Simulation of synthetic complex data: The R package simPop’, Journal of Statistical Software, 79(10), pp. 1–38. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4237.
M. Templ, B. Meindl, A. Kowarik, and O. Dupriez, “Simulation of synthetic complex data: The R package simPop,” Journal of Statistical Software, vol. 79, no. 10, pp. 1–38, 2017, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4237.
TEMPL, Matthias, Bernhard MEINDL, Alexander KOWARIK und Olivier DUPRIEZ, 2017. Simulation of synthetic complex data: The R package simPop. Journal of Statistical Software. 2017. Bd. 79, Nr. 10, S. 1–38. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-4237
Templ, Matthias, Bernhard Meindl, Alexander Kowarik, and Olivier Dupriez. 2017. “Simulation of Synthetic Complex Data: The R Package simPop.” Journal of Statistical Software 79 (10): 1–38. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4237.
Templ, Matthias, et al. “Simulation of Synthetic Complex Data: The R Package simPop.” Journal of Statistical Software, vol. 79, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1–38, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4237.
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