courtiol/SileR: Survival Analysis of Elephants Using an Extension of the William Siler's Framework

This R package aims at documenting the workflow behind the results from the paper entitled "Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants" by Mirkka Lahdenperä, Khyne U Mar, Alexandre Courtiol and Virpi Lummaa (2018) Nature Communications. The main goal of the package is to fit survival models derived from a model introduced by Siler ("A competiting-risk model for animal mortality", Ecology, 1979). The main differences are that the effect of covariate(s) are being investigated and that the survival models have to be fitted on right and left censored longitudinal data. This package has not been conceived for general use. It serves to document the steps of our analysis.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("courtiol/SileR")