[R] function indexed weighted log-rank statistics

[Ritwik Sinha]

Hi David,

Thanks, survdiff actually only has the G(rho) family, i.e. gamma is
set to 0. There is another package called surv2sample, that I found
only after I sent out the email, that contains what I am looking for.

Thanks,
Ritwik

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:53 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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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