joineR (version 1.0-3)

summary.jointdata: Summarise a jointdata object

Description

Generic function used to produce summaries of objects of class jointdata

Usage

"summary"(object, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of class jointdata

...

further arguments for the summary

Value

each element of the jointdata object.

subjects

Gives the number of subjects in the data set.

longitudinal

If longitudinal data is available, it gives the names and class, of the longitudinal variables.

survival

If survival data is available, it gives the number of subjects with failure and censored survival times.

baseline

If baseline covariates is available, it gives the names and class, of the baseline covariates.

times

If longitudinal data is available, it gives the unique longitudinal time measurements, if it is a balanced study. In case of unbalanced study , it will only state it is an unbalanced study.

See Also

jointdata, UniqueVariables.

Examples

data(heart.valve)
heart.surv <- UniqueVariables(heart.valve,
                              var.col = c("fuyrs", "status"), 
                              id.col = "num")
heart.valve.jd <- jointdata(survival = heart.surv, 
                            id.col = "num",
                            time.col = "time")
summary(heart.valve.jd)