emplik (version 1.3-1)

emplik-package: Empirical likelihood for mean functional/hazard functional with possibly censored data.

Description

Empirical likelihood ratio tests and confidence intervals for means/hazards from possibly censored and/or truncated data. Now does regression too. The package contains some C code.

Author

Mai Zhou (el.test is adapted from Owen's splus code. Yifan Yang for some C code.)

Maintainer: Mai Zhou <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>

Details

For non-censored data and mean parameters, use el.test( ).

For censored data and mean parameters, use el.cen.EM2( ).

For censored data and hazard parameters, use emplikH1.test( ) [Poisson type likelihood]; use emplikH.disc( ) [binomial type likelihood].

For constructing confidence intervals, use findUL( ).

References

Zhou, M. (2016). Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis. (Chapman and Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series) CRC press 2016

See Also

Another R package kmc for possible faster results when testing of mean with right censored data.