blk.countPastEvents: Count Past Events

In benjaminrich/PCSmisc: Useful functions for longitudinal data set construction and manipulation.

Description

Counts how many events occurred before the specified times in a block-format data set.

Usage

blk.countPastEvents(time, id, event.t = time, id2 = id)

Arguments

time	A vector of times at which to determine the number of past events, in block-format with respect to id.
id,id2	A valid block-format ID.
event.t	A vector of times at which events occur, in block-format with respect to id2.

Details

This function operates on data sets in block-format. The times at which “events” occur is specified. For a given vecotr of times, this function counts how many events occurred prior to each of those times.

For instance, one may wish to compute how many episodes of a given disease occurred prior to baseline time (t=0) for each individual.

Value

An integer vector in block-format with respect to id. The value indicates how events occurred prior to the corresponding time.

Author(s)

Ben Rich <[e-mail]>

See Also

• block-format

• blk.concomitant

Examples

require(nlme)
data(Phenobarb)
dat <- Phenobarb[1:56,]  # First 4 subjects
attach(dat)

cbind(dat, LAST.DOSE=blk.locf(dose, asID(Subject)))

detach(dat)

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