similar to: Checking for different hazard distributions in interval censored data

Can anybody give me a neat example of interval censored data analysis codes in R? Given that suvreg(Surv(c(1,1,NA,3),c(2,NA,2,3),type="interval2")~1) works why does survreg(Surv(data[,1],data[,2],type="interval2")~1) not work where data is : T.1 T.2 Status 1 0.0000000 0.62873036 1 2 0.0000000 2.07039068 1 3 0.0000000

Hi Everyone, This example code results in R 'crashing'; that is the R application closes with no warnings or error messages. #----------------------- myD <- read.table(stdin(), header=TRUE, nrows=20) Broth Salt pH Temp N Y Growth 1 310 9.0 2.92 10 90.0 NA 0 2 615 6.0 7.82 30 1.0 2 1 3 217 2.0 7.34 10 7.0 8

Hi R experts :) I'm trying to carry out a survival model on my data, but I am unsure of whether it's appropriate or if I should do something specific in regards to hazard. My data is time to death by predator where I have 8 prey and one predator in the setting. This means that two prey can't possibly die at the same time and I can't quite get my head around how to include this in

Hi, I am wondering how to specify interval-censored data in coxph? The example in the help page summary(coxph(Surv(start, stop, event) ~ x, data = test2)) is for counting process data, is the counting process data the same as interval-censored data? Thanks __________________________________

Hi, I've been banging my head against the following problem for a while and thought the fine people on r-help might be able to help. I'm using the survival package. I'm studying the survival rate of a population with a preexisting linear-like event rate (there are theoretical reasons to believe it's linear, but of course it's subject to the usual sampling noise) Some of the

Can survreg() handle interval-censored data like the documentation says? I ask because the command: survreg(Surv(start, stop, event) ~ 1, data = heart) fails with the error message Invalid survival type yet the documentation for Surv() states: "Presently, the only methods allowing interval censored data are the parametric models computed by 'survreg'"

Dear R users, I fear this is terribly trivial but I'm struggling to get my head around it. First of all, I'm using the "survival" package in R 2.12.2 on Windows Vista with the RExcel plugin. You probably only need to know that I'm using "survival" for this. I have data collected from 180 or so individuals that were checked 7 times throughout a trial with set

Dear All, I would like to ask if it is possible to estimate a hazard function using the muhaz command when all the data is right-censored. My data has information of the number of weeks people has been unemployed but all of them are unemployed at the date of the survey, that is, I cannot observed when the individuals leave the unemployment state. I appreciate your help, Best, Monica L.

Hi, I want to plot non parametric estimates of the empirical hazard function for right censored data. I've tried many functions from different packages (muhaz, Design, survival, eha, event), but none of them gave me what I wanted. Am I missing something? Here's what I want. The data below is the same used by Kiefer (J. Economic Literature, 1988), which in turns use a subset of the data

Dear all, I use the Andersen plot to check for proportional hazards assumption for a factor (say x) in the Cox regression model and obtained a straight line that pass through the origin. However, the formal test done by the R-function cox.zph, which is based on the plot of Schonefeld residuals against time, indicates that proportional hazards assumption is violated. Further, a plot of the score

Hello, I have interval censored data, censored between (0, 100). I used the tobit function in the AER package which in turn backs on survreg. Actually I'm struggling with the distribution. Data is asymmetrically distributed, so first choice would be a Weibull distribution. Unfortunately the Weibull doesn't allow for zero values in time data, as it requires x > 0. So I tried the

Dear All, I'm having just a little terminology problem, relating the language used in the Hosmer and Lemeshow text on Applied Survival Analysis to that of the help that comes with the survival package. I am trying to back out the values for the baseline hazard, h_o(t_i), for each event time or observation time. Now survfit(fit)$surv gives me the value of the survival function, S(t_i|X_i,B),

Dear all, I want to compute the NPMLE for interval censored data using the EMICM function in Icens package, but I didn't find much detailed instructions on how to use this. I couldn't even figure out how to specify the status of right censored, interval censored, observed. (probably due to my level of understanding.) Does anyone have experience on using this and could you please help me?

Hi just wondering if there is a package that can get the maximum likelihood or method of moments estimator for distributions with censored data? The distributions I'm interested in are: Exponential, pareto, beta, gamma and lognormal. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/MLE-for-censored-distributions-in-R-tp15022863p15022863.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

Dear all, Are there functions or packages in R that can handle interval-censored data? I have looked in various packages (such as survival5 or event), but it seems that only right-censored data can be analysed. More generally, are there methods to analyse both interval-censored observations and right-censored observations in the same data set? Thanks in advance. Emmanuel Paradis

Better would be to use interval censored data. Create your data set so that you have (time1, time2) pairs, each of which describes the interval of time over which the tag was lost. So an animal first captured at time 10 sans tag would be (0,10); with tag at 5 and without at 20 would be (5,20), and last seen with tag at 30 would be (30, NA). Then survit(Surv(time1, time2,

The following works, you need to include x=TRUE in the call to coxph. Passing the time and status variables as additional arguments is a matter of personal preference. f.coxph.zph<-function(x, timeVar, statusVar) { cox.fit <- coxph(Surv(timeVar, statusVar) ~ x, na.action = na.exclude, method = "breslow", x=TRUE) fit.zph<-cox.zph(cox.fit) fit.zph$table[,3] } time.cox <-

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I am aware of the nice R package "logspline", which does smooth density estimation from interval-censored data (that is, values that are known to lie in a specified interval rather than known exactly). Function logspline.fit uses a maximum penalized likelihood method, with the penalty related to the number of knots used in a cubic regression-spline fit. I need to be able to do some

Dear list: I am attempting to use what I thought would be a pretty straightforward practical application of Cox regression. I figure users of the survival package must have come across this problem before, so I would like to ask you how you dealt with it. I have set up an illustrative example and included it at the end of this post. I took a sample of 100 data points from each of two populations