coxrt: A Package to Fit the Cox Regression from Right Truncated Data
In coxrt: Cox Proportional Hazards Regression for Right-Truncated Data

The method assumes that truncation is independent of covariates, and of lifetime, and that there is no censoring. The method uses Inverse-Probability-Weighting estimating equations with stabilized weights, IPW-S and IPW-SA, as described in Vakulenko-Lagun et al. (2018). Currently the code allows only time-independent covariates.

The coxrt package provides two functions: coxph.RT (IPW-S) that assumes positivity and coxph.RT.a0 (IPW-SA) that allows for adjustment of estimation using plugged-in a0. The illustrative examples in these functions include analysis of AIDS latency data with age as a covariate, where the AIDS cases were retrospectively ascertained at June 30, 1986, and only those who developed AIDS by that time were included in the analysis (Kalbfeisch and Lawless, 1989).

Vakulenko-Lagun, B., Mandel, M., Betensky, R.A. Inverse probability weighting methods for Cox regression with right-truncated data. 2019, submitted to Biometrics

Kalbfeisch, J.D. and Lawless, J.F. Inference based on retrospective ascertainment: an analysis of the data on transfusion-related AIDS. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84 (406):360-372, 1989.

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