summary.jointdata: Summarise a 'jointdata' object

In joineR: Joint Modelling of Repeated Measurements and Time-to-Event Data

Summarise a jointdata object

Description

Generic function used to produce summaries of objects of class jointdata.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'jointdata'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object	an object of class joint.
...	further arguments for the summary.

Value

A list with five elements. Each summarises an element of the jointdata object:

subjects	Gives the number of subjects in the data set.
longitudinal	If longitudinal data is available, it gives the names and class, of the longitudinal variables.
survival	If survival data is available, it gives the number of subjects with failure and censored survival times.
baseline	If baseline covariates is available, it gives the names and class, of the baseline covariates.
times	If longitudinal data is available, it gives the unique longitudinal time measurements, if it is a balanced study. In case of unbalanced study, it will only state it is an unbalanced study.

Author(s)

Ines Sousa

See Also

jointdata, UniqueVariables.

Examples

data(heart.valve)
heart.surv <- UniqueVariables(heart.valve,
                              var.col = c("fuyrs", "status"), 
                              id.col = "num")
heart.valve.jd <- jointdata(survival = heart.surv, 
                            id.col = "num",
                            time.col = "time")
summary(heart.valve.jd)

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