[R] function indexed weighted log-rank statistics

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Sep 17 23:53:04 CEST 2008


On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Ritwik Sinha wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there an implementation of the G(rho,gamma) class of function
> indexed weighted log-rank statistics in R? For example those mentioned
> in the paper by Kosorok and Lin (1999): The Versatility of
> Function-Indexed Weighted Log-Rank Statistics [JSTOR link :
> http://www.jstor.org/pss/2669706]. I will be very grateful if someone
> could point me in the right direction.

Have you looked at survdiff in the survival package ?

I am not at the moment remembering the proper invocation to get  
authorship of  a package but my memory is that this was written in S- 
Plus by Therneau and ported to R by Lumley.

-- 
David Winsemius



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