Learn R Programming

ICE (version 0.69)

inmost: Innermost Intervals for Interval-Censored Data

Description

This function calculates the innermost intervals (Turnbull's algorithm) for interval-censored data. Right-censored data is not allowed at this point.

Usage

inmost(data, eps)

Arguments

data
A matrix with two columns, consisting of left and right endpoints of the interval data
eps
A scalar additive value which jitters the data slightly to break ties.

Value

innermost intervals.

References

Turnbull (1976) The empirical distribution function with arbitrarily grouped, censored and truncated data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 38: 290-295.