| NpdeData-class {npde} | R Documentation |
Class "NpdeData" representing the structure of the longitudinal data
Description
A longitudinal data structure
Objects from the Class
NpdeData objects are typically created by a call to npdeData contain the following slots:
- name.group
character string giving the name of the grouping term (ID)
- name.predictor
character string giving the name of the predictor (X)
- name.response
character string giving the name of the response (Y)
- name.cens
character string giving the name of the censoring indicator in the original dataset (renamed to cens)
- name.mdv
character string giving the name of the missing data indicator in the original dataset (renamed to mdv)
- name.covariates
vector of character string giving the name(s) of the covariates
- name.ipred
character string giving the name of the individual predictions
- units
(optional) a list with the units for X, Y, and covariates
- data
a dataframe containing the data
- N
number of subjects
- ntot.obs
total number of non-missing observations
- nind.obs
vector of size N giving the number of non-missing observations for each subject
- ind
index of non-missing observations
- icens
index of censored observations (non-missing)
- not.miss
a vector of boolean indicating for each observation whether it is missing (FALSE) or available (TRUE)
- loq
the censoring value
Methods
- show(npde.data):
Prints a short summary of object npde.data
- qqplot.npde(npde.data):
QQ-plot for NpdeData object (TODO: change for NpdeObject in final package)
Examples
methods(class="NpdeData")
showClass("NpdeData")