data.creation.reg {p3state.msm}

Regression dataset

Description

Returns the input data in a different format. Provides the adequate dataset for implementing regression models.

Usage

data.creation.reg(data)

Arguments

data

A data.frame with at least 5 variables: times1 (time of the intermediate event/censoring time), delta (indicator of transition to the intermediate event), times2 (time to the final event/censoring time), time (times1 + times2) and status (censoring indicator: "dead"=1,"alive"=0). The remaining variables in the data.frame are left for the covariates.

Value

A data.frame in a counting process format.

Author(s)

Luis Meira-Machado, Javier Roca-Pardinas and Artur Araújo

References

Meira-Machado L., Roca-Pardinas J. (2011). p3state.msm: Analyzing Survival Data from an Illness-Death Model. Journal of Statistical Software, 38(3), 1-18. doi:10.18637/jss.v038.i03