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Rsurrogate (version 3.2)

delta.t.surv.estimate: Calculates robust residual treatment effect accounting only for primary outcome information up to a specified time

Description

This function calculates the robust estimate of the residual treatment effect accounting only for primary outcome information up to \(t_0\) i.e. the hypothetical treatment effect if survival up to \(t_0\) in the treatment group looks like survival up to \(t_0\) in the control group. Ideally this function is only used as a helper function and is not directly called.

Usage

delta.t.surv.estimate(xone, xzero, deltaone, deltazero, t, weight.perturb = NULL,
landmark, approx = T)

Value

\(\hat{\Delta}_T(t,t_0)\), the robust residual treatment effect estimate accounting only for survival up to \(t_0\).

Arguments

xone

numeric vector, the observed event times in the treatment group, X = min(T,C) where T is the time of the primary outcome and C is the censoring time.

xzero

numeric vector, the observed event times in the control group, X = min(T,C) where T is the time of the primary outcome and C is the censoring time.

deltaone

numeric vector, the event indicators for the treatment group, D = I(T<C) where T is the time of the primary outcome and C is the censoring time.

deltazero

numeric vector, the event indicators for the control group, D = I(T<C) where T is the time of the primary outcome and C is the censoring time.

t

the time of interest.

weight.perturb

weights used for perturbation resampling.

landmark

the landmark time \(t_0\) or time of surrogate marker measurement.

approx

TRUE or FALSE indicating whether an approximation should be used when calculating the probability of censoring; most relevant in settings where the survival time of interest for the primary outcome is greater than the last observed event but before the last censored case, default is TRUE.

Author

Layla Parast

Details

Details are included in the documentation for R.t.surv.estimate.

References

Parast, L., Cai, T., & Tian, L. (2017). Evaluating surrogate marker information using censored data. Statistics in Medicine, 36(11), 1767-1782.

Examples

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data(d_example_surv)
names(d_example_surv)





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