summary.jointdata {joineR} | R Documentation |
Summarise a jointdata
object
Description
Generic function used to produce summaries of objects of class
jointdata
.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'jointdata'
summary(object, ...)
Arguments
object |
an object of class |
... |
further arguments for the summary. |
Value
A list with five elements. Each summarises an element of the
jointdata
object:
subjects |
Gives the number of subjects in the data set. |
longitudinal |
If longitudinal data is available, it gives the names and class, of the longitudinal variables. |
survival |
If survival data is available, it gives the number of subjects with failure and censored survival times. |
baseline |
If baseline covariates is available, it gives the names and class, of the baseline covariates. |
times |
If longitudinal data is available, it gives the unique longitudinal time measurements, if it is a balanced study. In case of unbalanced study, it will only state it is an unbalanced study. |
Author(s)
Ines Sousa
See Also
Examples
data(heart.valve)
heart.surv <- UniqueVariables(heart.valve,
var.col = c("fuyrs", "status"),
id.col = "num")
heart.valve.jd <- jointdata(survival = heart.surv,
id.col = "num",
time.col = "time")
summary(heart.valve.jd)