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survival (version 2.6)

untangle.specials: Help Process the `specials' Argument of the `terms' Function.

Description

Given a terms structure and a desired special name, this returns an index appropriate for subscripting the terms structure and another appropriate for the data frame.

Usage

untangle.specials(tt, special, order=1)

Arguments

tt
a terms object.
special
the name of a special function, presumably used in the terms object.
order
the order of the desired terms. If set to 2, interactions with the special function will be included.
vars
a vector of variable names, as would be found in the data frame, of the specials.
terms
a numeric vector, suitable for subscripting the terms structure, that indexes the terms in the expanded model formula which involve the special.