[R] methods for interval-censored data

Thomas Lumley thomas at biostat.washington.edu
Wed Sep 20 18:21:28 CEST 2000


On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Paradis wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Are there functions or packages in R that can handle interval-censored
> data? I have looked in various packages (such as survival5 or event), but
> it seems that only right-censored data can be analysed.

survival5 can fit parametric models to interval-censored data, but not
semiparametric models. There is also an example in
 survival5/Examples/test/doturnbull.s 
of a function to estimate the survival function for interval censored
data. Not much else.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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