[R] Mean and variance of the right-censored data

[Petr Mandys]

Thank you!

I'm using this:

require(NADA)

var_sf=survfit(Surv(a, !b))
var_result=new("cenfit", survfit=var_sf)

Class cenfit has methods to get mean a variance from survfit result. Is 
this correct?

Pete

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Don MacQueen wrote:

> The survival package has functions for fitting models to right censored 
> data.
>
> require(survival)
> ?survfit
> ?Surv
>
> -Don
>
> At 12:17 AM +0200 7/25/05, Petr Mandys wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I need to get mean and variance of right censored data. How can I do that?
>> 
>> I have a vector of values (called a) and vector of booleans (whether value
>> is censored) (called b). What to do with this? Sorry, I'm R beginner.
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>> Pete
>> 
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