plotdistcens: Plot of empirical and theoretical distributions for censored...

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) References See Also Examples

Description

Plots an empirical distribution for censored data with a theoretical one if specified.

Usage

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plotdistcens(censdata, distr, para, leftNA = -Inf, rightNA = Inf,NPMLE = TRUE,
    Turnbull = NULL, Turnbull.confint = FALSE, NPMLE.method = "Wang", ...)

Arguments

censdata

A dataframe of two columns respectively named left and right, describing each observed value as an interval. The left column contains either NA for left censored observations, the left bound of the interval for interval censored observations, or the observed value for non-censored observations. The right column contains either NA for right censored observations, the right bound of the interval for interval censored observations, or the observed value for non-censored observations.

distr

A character string "name" naming a distribution, for which the corresponding density function dname and the corresponding distribution function pname must be defined, or directly the density function.

para

A named list giving the parameters of the named distribution. This argument may be omitted only if distr is omitted.

leftNA

the real value of the left bound of left censored observations : -Inf or a finite value such as 0 for positive data for example.

rightNA

the real value of the right bound of right censored observations : Inf or a finite value such as a realistic maximum value.

NPMLE

if TRUE an NPMLE (nonparametric maximum likelihood estimate) technique is used to estimate the cdf curve of the censored data and previous arguments leftNA and rightNA are not used (see details)

Turnbull

Turnbull is a deprecated argument. You should now use NPMLE to choose to use an NPMLE technique (or not) and NPMLE.method to choose the method.

Turnbull.confint

if TRUE confidence intervals will be added to the Turnbull plot. In that case NPMLE.method is forced to "Turnbull"

NPMLE.method

Two NPMLE techniques are provided, "Wang", the default one, which is implemented in the package npsurv and "Turnbull", an older one, which is implemented in the package survival (see details). Only "Wang" enables the derivation of a Q-Q plot and a P-P plot.

...

further graphical arguments passed to other methods. The title of the plot can be modified using the argument main only for the CDF plot.

Details

If NPMLE is TRUE, and NPMLE.method is "Wang", empirical and, if specified, theoretical distributions are plotted in cdf using either the constrained Newton method (Wang, 2008) or the hierarchical constrained Newton method (Wang, 2013) to compute the overall empirical cdf curve, by calls to functions npsurv from the npsurv package. In this plot, grey rectangles represent areas where the empirical distribution function is not unique. In cases where a theoretical distribution is specified, two goodness-of-fit plots are also provided, a Q-Q plot (plot of the quantiles of the theoretical fitted distribution (x-axis) against the empirical quantiles of the data) and a P-P plot (i.e. for each value of the data set, plot of the cumulative density function of the fitted distribution (x-axis) against the empirical cumulative density function (y-axis)). Grey rectangles in a Q-Q plot or a P-P plot also represent areas of non uniqueness of empirical quantiles or probabilities, directly derived from non uniqueness areas of the empirical cumulative distribution.

If NPMLE is TRUE, and NPMLE.method is "Turnbull", empirical and, if specified, theoretical distributions are plotted in cdf using the EM approach of Turnbull (Turnbull, 1974) to compute the overall empirical cdf curve, with confidence intervals if Turnbull.confint is TRUE, by calls to functions survfit and plot.survfit from the survival package.

If NPMLE is FALSE empirical and, if specified, theoretical distributions are plotted in cdf, with data directly reported as segments for interval, left and right censored data, and as points for non-censored data. Before plotting, observations are ordered and a rank r is associated to each of them. Left censored observations are ordered first, by their right bounds. Interval censored and non censored observations are then ordered by their mid-points and, at last, right censored observations are ordered by their left bounds. If leftNA (resp. rightNA) is finite, left censored (resp. right censored) observations are considered as interval censored observations and ordered by mid-points with non-censored and interval censored data. It is sometimes necessary to fix rightNA or leftNA to a realistic extreme value, even if not exactly known, to obtain a reasonable global ranking of observations. After ranking, each of the n observations is plotted as a point (one x-value) or a segment (an interval of possible x-values), with an y-value equal to r/n, r being the rank of each observation in the global ordering previously described. This second method may be interesting but is certainly less rigorous than the Turnbull method that should be prefered.

Author(s)

Marie-Laure Delignette-Muller and Christophe Dutang.

References

Turnbull BW (1974), Nonparametric estimation of a survivorship function with doubly censored data. Journal of American Statistical Association, 69, 169-173.

Wang Y (2008), Dimension-reduced nonparametric maximum likelihood computation for interval-censored data. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52, 2388-2402.

Wang Y and Taylor SM (2013), Efficient computation of nonparametric survival functions via a hierarchical mixture formulation. Statistics and Computing, 23, 713-725.

Wang, Y., & Fani, S. (2018), Nonparametric maximum likelihood computation of a U-shaped hazard function. Statistics and Computing, 28(1), 187-200.

Delignette-Muller ML and Dutang C (2015), fitdistrplus: An R Package for Fitting Distributions. Journal of Statistical Software, 64(4), 1-34.

See Also

plotdist, survfit.formula.

Examples

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# (1) Plot of an empirical censored distribution (censored data) as a CDF
# using the default Turnbull method
#
data(smokedfish)
d1 <- as.data.frame(log10(smokedfish))
plotdistcens(d1)

# (2) Add the CDF of a normal distribution 
#
plotdistcens(d1,"norm",para=list(mean=-1.6,sd=1.5))

# (3) Various plots of the same empirical distribution 
#
# default Wang plot
plotdistcens(d1, NPMLE = TRUE, NPMLE.method = "Wang")
# Turnbull plot
plotdistcens(d1, NPMLE = TRUE, NPMLE.method = "Turnbull")
# Turnbull plot with confidence intervals
plotdistcens(d1, NPMLE = TRUE, NPMLE.method = "Turnbull", Turnbull.confint = TRUE)
# with intervals and points
plotdistcens(d1,rightNA=3, NPMLE = FALSE)
# with intervals and points
# defining a minimum value for left censored values
plotdistcens(d1,leftNA=-3, NPMLE = FALSE)

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