PKMW {survidm}

Presmoothed Kaplan-Meier weights

Description

This function returns a vector with the presmoothed Kaplan-Meier weights.

Usage

PKMW(time, status)

Arguments

time

Survival time of the process.

status

Censoring indicator of the survival time of the process; 0 if the survival time is censored and 1 otherwise.

Value

Vector with presmoothed Kaplan-Meier weights.

Author(s)

Luis Meira-Machado, Marta Sestelo and Gustavo Soutinho.

References

R. Cao, I. Lopez-de Ullibarri, P. Janssen, and N. Veraverbeke. Presmoothed kaplan-meier and nelsonaalen estimators. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 17:31-56, 2005.

G. Dikta. On semiparametric random censorship models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 66:253-279, 1998.

E. Kaplan and P. Meier. Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 53:457-481, 1958.

See Also

KMW

Examples

obj <- with(colonIDM, survIDM(time1, event1, Stime, event))
PKMW(time = obj$Stime, status = obj$event)