generatePatientData: Generate Patient Data

In survGenesInterim: Simulation of Survival Studies with Microarray Data

Description

This function simulates entry dates of the patient data (e.g. date of diagnosis od data of surgery) and survival times of the patients.

Usage

  generatePatientData(N, l.1.tick, lambda)

Arguments

N	the sample size, i.e. the number of patients
l.1.tick	the (anticipated) lenth of the recruitment period
lambda	the mean survival time of the patients

Value

arrivalTimes	the vector of simulated arrival times
survivalTimes	the vector of simulated survival times
N.1	number of patients with survival time less then the mean survival time 'lambda'
N.2	number of patients with survival time greater then the mean survival time 'lambda'
l.1.tick	the length of the recruitment period (unchanged parameter)
lambda	the mean survival time (parameter)

Author(s)

Andreas Leha [e-mail]

See Also

generateExpressionData

Examples

## the number of patients
N <- 50

## the anticipated length of the recruitment period
l.1.tick <- 60

## the mean survival time
lambda <- 60

## Not run: P <- generatePatientData(N, l.1.tick, lambda)

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