exact.rate.test: Exact hazard rate test - single sample
In clayford/bme: Biostatistical Methods in Epidemiology

Description Usage Arguments Value References Examples

Performs an exact test of the null that a single sample hazard rate is equal to some value.

1	exact.rate.test(time, status, null = 1, conf.level = 0.95, upper = 100)

`time`	a numeric vector of survival times.
`status`	a numeric vector of censoring indicators, with 0 = censored and 1 = dead.
`null`	the null hazard rate. Default is 1.
`conf.level`	confidence level of the returned confidence interval. Must be a single number between 0 and 1.
`upper`	upper end point of the interval to be searched for one dimensional root (zero) finding (passed to `uniroot`)

A list with class "htest" containing the following components:

p.value: The p-value of the test.
estimate: An estimate of the hazard rate.
null.value: The null hazard rate.
conf.int: A confidence interval for the hazard rate.
alternative: A character string describing the alternative hypothesis. Currently only "two.sided".
method: A character string indicating the method employed.
data.name: A character string giving the name of the data.

Newman (2001), page 203-4.

## Example 10.3
exact.rate.test(time = 10, status = 2, null = 0.4)

## With Breast Cancer Survival data
with(breast.survival, exact.rate.test(time = time, status = status))
with(breast.survival, exact.rate.test(time = time, status = status, null = 0.01))