rf_impute should take an argument for a target total (e.g. an administrative total) to hit. It can achieve this target by adjusting the quantiles to select. Currently, it samples randomly from the conditional distribution, effectively using the uniform distribution to select quantiles. To achieve the target while still selecting realistic values (those in the conditional distribution), it can instead adjust the distribution of quantiles to select, by using something other than the uniform distribution.
MaxGhenis
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3 years ago
rf_imputeshould take an argument for a target total (e.g. an administrative total) to hit. It can achieve this target by adjusting the quantiles to select. Currently, it samples randomly from the conditional distribution, effectively using the uniform distribution to select quantiles. To achieve the target while still selecting realistic values (those in the conditional distribution), it can instead adjust the distribution of quantiles to select, by using something other than the uniform distribution.