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biostat3 (version 0.2.1)

Utility Functions, Datasets and Extended Examples for Survival Analysis

Description

Utility functions, datasets and extended examples for survival analysis. This extends a range of other packages, some simple wrappers for time-to-event analyses, datasets, and extensive examples in HTML with R scripts. The package also supports the course Biostatistics III entitled "Survival analysis for epidemiologists in R".

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install.packages('biostat3')

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Version

0.2.1

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Mark Clements

Last Published

August 19th, 2024

Functions in biostat3 (0.2.1)

survRate

Describe rates
smoothHaz

Simple implementation for kernel density smoothing of the Nelson-Aalen estimator.
colon_sample

Sample from the colon dataset used for teaching.
diet

Diet data set
coxphHaz

Smoothed hazard estimates for coxph
popmort

popmort dataset, with population-based mortality rates
eform

Calculate the exponential form for coefficients and their confidence intervals using either profile likelihood-based or Wald-based confidence intervals.
survPHplot

Plot to assess non-proportionality
lifetab

Create cohort life table
addIndicators

Utility to add indicators from a data-frame based on a formula.
brv

Bereavement dataset
melanoma

Melanoma cancer dataset
utilities

Utility functions for the biostat3 package
colon

Colon cancer dataset
year

Convert a Date vector to a numeric vector
lifetab2

Formula wrapper for lifetab from the KMsurv package.
lincom

Linear combination of regression parameters.
biostat3-package

tools:::Rd_package_title("biostat3")
muhaz2

Formula wrapper for the muhaz function from the muhaz package.
poisson.ci

Exact Poisson confidence intervals.