[R] simulate survival data using median survival time

[Michael Bedward]

Hi Kere,

Step 1 is choose an appropriate distribution :)  Do you have one in
mind ?  Or are you interested in examining the effects of survival
times having the same mean but generated with alternative
distributions ?

One ready-rolled alternative is the SimSurv method in package prodlim.
To find (many) others you can use the "sos" package...

library(sos)
findFn("simulate survival data")

Which returns 66 matches when I just tried it.

Michael

On 16 November 2010 18:04, Kere Klein <k.klein at uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I like to know how to simulate survival data using median (or mean) survival time. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
> Kere
>
> Kerenaftali Klein PhD| Biostatistician | Queensland Clinical Trials & Biostatistics Centre
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