survrec (version 1.2-2)

surv.search: Calculate the survival in selected times

Description

Auxiliary function called from pshPLE, wcPLE and MLEFrailty.

The estimation using PLE (e.g. Kaplan-Meier) is a decreasing constant piecewise function with jumps in the times with events. Thus, to estimate the survival at any time we take the time of the precious event.

Usage

surv.search(tvals,time,surv)

Arguments

tvals

vector of times where the survival function has to be estimated

time

vector of failures times (distinct)

surv

vector of survival of each time

Value

Returns the survival in each selected time (tvals) from a vector of survival values

Examples

# we have the times 4,7,9,15,21,67
time<-c(4,7,9,15,21,67)

# and its survival (note: in this example there may be more
#                         than one event in some times)
surv<-c(0.8,0.7,0.65,0.55,0.43,0.22)

# We want to calculated the survival at times 1, 10, 32,64
surv.search(c(1,10,32,74),time,surv)