PMDA.coxph: Multiple Imputation using Poor Man's Data Augmentation scheme (PMDA) for Cox proportional hazard regression

Description

for internal uses

PMDA.coxph(formula, data, imax = 25, k = 10, th0 = 1e-03)

formula

a formula

data

data used in this function

imax

maximum number of iteration

number of dataset to generate for each iteration

th0

note used currently

betaestimation of the coefficient(s)
sr_sigmaestimation of the standard errors
n_iternumber of iteration used
sigma1mean of standard errors not augmented for the between imputations composant of the variance

This function is called by MIICD.coxph with option PMDA (Poor Man's Data Augmentation)

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Wei, G. C., & Tanner, M. A. (1991). Applications of multiple imputation to the analysis of censored regression data. Biometrics, 47(4), 1297-1309.