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Affiliations

Thom Benjamin Volker, MSc.

Utrecht University

Statistics Netherlands

Published

December 18, 2025

Contributors

This site was authored by Thom Volker, and edits and contributions were made by Malika Ihle, Alberto Villagran, Felix Schönbrodt and Patrick Callahan.

Licenses

The overall project is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license found at LICENSE; all code without any narrative text is also (at your option) available under the CC0 1.0 Universal license found at LICENSE-CODE.

Why two licenses? The CC BY-SA 4.0 license is for the content of the website, while the CC0 1.0 Universal license is for the code and configuration files. This is a common practice for websites that include code snippets and other content that may be reused in other projects, particularly because the CC BY-SA 4.0 license is not intended to be used with software.

Notes

This tutorial was primarily written in 2025 using R version 4.5.0. Major changes to R can be found at the R website for the most up-to-date information, and to confirm that our tutorial is not out-of-date.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{benjamin_volker2025,
  author = {Benjamin Volker, Thom},
  title = {Generating and Evaluating Synthetic Data in {R}},
  date = {2025-12-18},
  url = {https://lmu-osc.github.io/synthetic-data-tutorial/},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Benjamin Volker, Thom. 2025. “Generating and Evaluating Synthetic Data in R.” LMU Open Science Center. December 18, 2025. https://lmu-osc.github.io/synthetic-data-tutorial/.