simCostData

This function can be used to demonstrate the bias and coverage 
of the estimators in the ccmean function

Implementation of estimators for inferring
the mean of censored cost data. Including the estimators
BT from Bang and Tsiatis (2000) <doi:10.1093/biomet/87.2.329> and
ZT from Zhao and Tian (2001) <doi:10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.01002.x>.

Lars Boerty

ccostr

Estimation of Mean Costs in Censored Data

Rasmus Broendum

Martin Boegsted

Haematology Research Unit - Aalborg 

simCostData function

<dl><dt>n</dt>
<dd>Number of individuals to simulate</dd>
<dt>dist</dt>
<dd>Survival distribution either "unif" = unif(0,10) o r "exp" = exp (1/6)</dd>
<dt>censor</dt>
<dd>Censoring "light" ~ 25% or "heavy" ~ 40%, changes a bit depending on cdist</dd>
<dt>cdist</dt>
<dd>Distribution used to censor, "exp" exponential or "unif" uniform</dd>
<dt>L</dt>
<dd>Number of years to summarize over</dd></dl>

Arguments

Simulates censored cost data — simCostData

<dl>

<dt>n</dt>
<dd>Number of individuals to simulate</dd>


<dt>dist</dt>
<dd>Survival distribution either "unif" = unif(0,10) o r "exp" = exp (1/6)</dd>


<dt>censor</dt>
<dd>Censoring "light" ~ 25% or "heavy" ~ 40%, changes a bit depending on cdist</dd>


<dt>cdist</dt>
<dd>Distribution used to censor, "exp" exponential or "unif" uniform</dd>


<dt>L</dt>
<dd>Number of years to summarize over</dd>

</dl>

simCostData: Simulates censored cost data

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