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Generate Sample Data in R
May 16, 2024
We need sample data to work with some tasks in R, we can generate sample data using different methods. 00::00 Manually Generate Values 0:41 Normal Distribution Data 1:56 Categorical sample data 2:25 Categorical and Continuous Sample data Website: thedatahall.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
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Welcome to the DataHall YouTube channel
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In this video we are going to talk about how do we generate a sample data in R
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When we are going to work with certain projects or when we are going to learn something we would
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need certain data and usually what we do is we generate some random data
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So one way of doing that is to generate data manually. So what that means is that we use this data frame function and specify all the values and
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the variables by ourselves for example we have different countries years GDP growth data we have
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specified them manually and that would create a data frame or data that we can work with
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Now that is one way of doing that. The second is that let's say if we want to generate some normal distribution
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what we can do is we can use our norm function specify the number of values we want
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the mean value of that series and the standard deviation of that series
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But obviously when we do this each time when it would give us the data
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it would be a different set of data. So let me show you this data this is how the data looks like if I generate it again
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and if I can again show you the data it is totally different from the one that we previously generated
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Now if you want your code to be replicable to be reproducible in future
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then what you need to do is set a seed. So if I set the seed execute this command and show you the data this is how it would look like
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if I can again set the seed and execute the data each time it would be same data that we previously
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had because I have set a seed. Now if you do it at your own system using this exact seed then you would get the exact same data
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at your end. We can have other kind of distributions not just normal distribution we can have uniform
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distribution binomial distribution etc. We can work with them but let's use the wrap function what wrap function is
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would do is it would repeat certain values. For example I have men women and children in my data set I want to create a data set that
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would have these three categories and for each category I want 30 observations
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So I'm going to use the wrap function if I can show you the data this is high data we have
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30 observations for men women and children's age. Lastly we can use the sample function now the sample function is quite diverse it can do
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multiple things I'm again going to set the seed first now what it does is let's say I want to
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generate certain individual's data students data you would have their id now in this case I have
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just used the sequence to generate id I want to use the sample function but I also want their age
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I want to generate a sample a random data that would have the age what I want but what I want
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is that the that age should not be in decimal digits and that age should be in specific range
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So what I do is I specify the sample function specify the range the number of observations I
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want and whether I want it to be replaced or not so what that means is that if it generated a value
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if it generated an individual with an age of 20 do you want another individual with the same age or
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not obviously we can have multiple individuals with the same age so that why we have set replace
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equal to true now what what other cases can be that let's say I want to generate an student id
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now each student id would be different so let's just say that would be in range of
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1 0 500 and we want 500 observations and in this case I want it to be set to false
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So what that means is that if it has assigned a value the specific value to a single individual
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I do not want this in this value to be assigned to any other individual so that's why I have set
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replace equal to false. Similarly we can work with categorical data as we did with the rep function
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for example I want to generate a sample of male and female we want 500 observations again we can
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have multiple males and multiple females in our data we can have more than two categories for
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example we want to generate the education data we have four categories whether an individual can have
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a primary level of education or a secondary level of education bachelor's or master's
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again multiple individuals can have the same kind of education so if I can execute this
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I made a mistake over here if I can execute this we can have the data and this is how the data
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would look like you can see that we have multiple individuals with age 33 but we would have only
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one individual with each student date that's what this replace equals to fall function would do
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So I hope this video was useful do subscribe to this channel do hit the bell icon and thanks for
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watching this video