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- _P_a_c_k_a_g_e _a _s_u_r_v_i_v_a_l _v_a_r_i_a_b_l_e
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- Surv(time, event) or Surv(time, time2, event)
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- _A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:
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- time:
- for right censored data, this is the follow up time.
- For interval data, the first argument is the starting
- time for the interval.
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- event:
- The status indicator, normally 0=alive, 1=dead. Other
- choices are T/F (TRUE = death) or 1/2 (2=death). For
- interval censored data, the status indicator is 0=right
- censored, 1= event at time, 2=left censored, 3=interval
- censored.
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- time2:
- For interval censored or counting process data only,
- the ending time of the interval. Intervals are
- assummed to be open on the left and closed on the
- right, ]start, end]. For counting process data, event
- marks whether an event occured at the end of the inter-
- val.
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- type:
- one of left, right, counting, interval, or interval2.
- If this is not specified, the default is either right
- or counting, depending on whether the time2 argument is
- absent or present, respectively.
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- origin:
- for counting process data, the hazard function origin.
- This is most often used in conjunction with a model
- containing time dependent strata in order to align the
- subjects properly when they cross over from one strata
- to another.
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- Value:
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- An object of class 'Surv'. There are methods for
- print, is.na, and subscripting survival objects. To
- include a survival object inside a data frame, use the
- I() function. Surv objects are implimented as a matrix
- of 2 or 3 columns.
-
- In theory it is possible to represent interval censored
- data without a third column containing the explicit
- status. Exact, right censored, left censored and
- interval censored observation would be represented as
- intervals of (a,a), (a, infinity), (-infinity,b), and
- (a,b) respectively; each specifing the interval within
- which the event is known to have occured. Infinity is,
- of course, impractical in a computer routine. If type
- is "interval2" then the representation given above is
- assumed, with NA taking the place of infinity. If
- type='interval' then an explicit status code must be
- given in the third argument. If the status code is 0,
- 1 or 2, then the relevant information is assumed to be
- contained in time, the value in time2 is ignored, and
- the second column of the result will contain a place-
- holder. At present, all of the methods that handle
- interval censored data are parametric models, so the
- distinction between open and closed intervals is unim-
- portant. The distinction is important for counting
- process data and the Cox model.
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- _E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:
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- Surv(amlime, amltatus)
- [1] 9 13 13+ 18 23 28+ 31 34 45+ 48 161+ 5 5 8 8
- [16] 12 16+ 23 27 30 33 43 45
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