TPmsm (version 1.2.1)

TPmsmOut: Convert a data.frame in the TPmsm format to other formats

Description

Converts a data.frame in the TPmsm format to formats supported by external packages.

Usage

TPmsmOut(data, names, package="p3state.msm")

Arguments

data

A data.frame in the TPmsm format.

names

A character vector of lenght 4, indicating the variable names equivalent to variable names “time1”, “event1”, “Stime”, “event” in the TPmsm format, in this order.

package

The format of the data.frame. Possible options are “p3state.msm” and “etm”. Defaults to “p3state.msm”.

Value

A data.frame in the format specified by argument package.

References

Allignol A., Schumacher M., Beyersmann J. (2011) Empirical Transition Matrix of Multi-State Models: The etm Package. Journal of Statistical Software 38(4), 1--15.

Meira-Machado L., Roca-Pardi<U+00F1>as J. (2011) p3state.msm: Analyzing Survival Data from an Illness-Death Model. Journal of Statistical Software 38(3), 1--18.

See Also

as.data.frame.survTP, survTP.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(heartTP)
heartP3 <- TPmsmOut( heartTP, c("time1", "event1", "Stime", "event") )
head(heartP3)
# }