This function calculates the mean cost for right-censored cost data over a period of L time units (days, months, years,...)
ccmean(x, L = max(x$surv), addInterPol = 0)
A dataframe with columns: id, cost, delta and surv. If Cost history is available it can be specified by: start and stop,
Limit. Mean cost is calculated up till L, if not specified L = max(surv)
This parameter affects the interpolation of cost between two observed times. Defaults to zero.
An object of class "ccobject".
The function returns four estimates. The first two are simple and biased downwards, and included for comparison. The estimates are:
- AS: "Available Sample estimator" - The simple sample mean
- CC: "Complete Case estimator" - The mean of fully observed cases
- BT: "Weighted Complete Case estimator" - Bang and Tsiatis's estimator
- ZT: "Weighted Available estimator" - Zhao and Tian's estimator
The function needs the following in a dataframe:
- id: The id separating each individual
- cost: The total cost, or if start and stop provided the specific cost
- start: Start of cost
- stop: End of cost, if one time cost then start = stop
- delta: Event variable, 1 = event, 0 = no event
- surv: Survival
Bang2000ccostr
Zhao2001ccostr
# NOT RUN {
hcost
ccmean(hcost, L = 1461, addInterPol = 1)
# }
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