sccr-package {sccr}

The Self-Consistent, Competing Risks (SC-CR) Algorithms

Description

The SC-SR Algorithm is used to calculate the cause-deleted life expectancy improvement for left and right censored data. In the version 2.0 the function creating the probability matrix from double-censored data is added.

Author(s)

Peter Adamic, Alicja Wolny-Dominiak Maintainer: <[e-mail]>

References

1. Adamic, P., Caron, S. (2014), "SC-CR Algorithms with Informative Masking", Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2014(4), 339-351.

2. Adamic, P., Dixon, S., Gillis, D. (2010), "Multiple Decrement Modeling in the Presence of Interval Censoring and Masking", Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2010(4), 312-327.

3. Adamic, P., Ouadah, S. (2009), "A Kernel Method for Modeling Interval Censored Competing Risks", South African Statistical Journal, 43(1), 1-20.

4. Turnbull, B. (1976). The Empirical Distribution Function with Arbitrarily Grouped, Censored and Truncated Data, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological), 38(3), 290-295.