censor.time: Function to artificially censor survival data

In survcomp: Performance Assessment and Comparison for Survival Analysis

Description

The function censors the survival data at a specific point in time. This is is useful if you used datasets having different follow-up periods.

Usage

censor.time(surv.time, surv.event, time.cens = 0)

Arguments

surv.time	vector of times to event occurrence
surv.event	vector of indicators for event occurrence
time.cens	point in time at which the survival data must be censored

Value

surv.time.cens	vector of censored times to event occurrence
surv.event.cens	vector of censored indicators for event occurrence

Author(s)

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

Examples

set.seed(12345)
stime <- rexp(30)
cens <- runif(30,0.5,2)
sevent <- as.numeric(stime <= cens)
stime <- pmin(stime, cens)
censor.time(surv.time=stime, surv.event=sevent, time.cens=1)

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