Interval censored data described and given in full in Finkelstein and Wolfe (1985), discussed by More (2016, example 12.2) and available in the R package 'interval' (refer to ?bcos). Compared to the interval package version, bcos2 simply recode the lower value of left-censored data (NA instead of 0) and upper value of right-censored data (NA instead of Inf) to allow an easy identification of left-censored data by means of the function Surv
when type=="interval2"
.