md.exp: md.exp

In missDeaths: Simulating and Analyzing Time to Event Data in the Presence of Population Mortality

Description

Creates information of an event time variable distributed according to the specified exponential distribution. This function call must be added to the md.simparams object.

Usage

md.exp(name, startcol, covariates, betas, lambda)

Arguments

name	name of the column
startcol	column name specifying individual study start dates or a start date
covariates	names of covariate columns used
betas	betas for the corresponding covariate columns
lambda	baseline lambda

Examples

## Not run: 
library(missDeaths)

sim = md.simparams() +
  md.uniform("X1", 0.5) + 
    md.norm("X2") +
      md.exp("event", as.Date("1915-1-1"), c("X1", "X2"), c(0.1, 0.2), 0.05/365.2425)

## End(Not run)

missDeaths documentation built on Oct. 23, 2020, 6:39 p.m.