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biostat3 (version 0.1.4)

Utility Functions, Datasets and Extended Examples for Survival Analysis

Description

Utility functions, datasets and extended examples for survival analysis. This extends a range of other packages, some simple wrappers for time-to-event analyses, datasets, and extensive examples in HTML with R scripts. The package also supports the course Biostatistics III entitled "Survival analysis for epidemiologists in R".

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install.packages('biostat3')

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0.1.4

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Mark Clements

Last Published

November 5th, 2019

Functions in biostat3 (0.1.4)

Calculate the exponential form for coefficients and their confidence intervals using either profile likelihood-based or Wald-based confidence intervals.

Linear combination of regression parameters.

Melanoma cancer dataset

Bereavement dataset

Smoothed hazard estimates for coxph

Sample from the colon dataset used for teaching.

Colon cancer dataset

Create cohort life table

Formula wrapper for lifetab from the KMsurv package.

Utility to add indicators from a data-frame based on a formula.

biostat3-package

Convert a Date vector to a numeric vector

Utility functions for the biostat3 package

Formula wrapper for the muhaz function from the muhaz package.

Exact Poisson confidence intervals.

Plot to assess non-proportionality

popmort dataset, with population-based mortality rates

Simple implementation for kernel density smoothing of the Nelson-Aalen estimator.