[R-sig-Epi] Left truncated and right censored data

Martina Gandini gandini at calvino.polito.it
Fri Nov 11 12:16:11 CET 2005


I have a question concerning a non parametric estimator for left truncated
and right censored data. I see that the function


survfit(Surv(time1, time2, status) ~ group, data=mydata)

  (where time1= left truncation time
   time2= follow=up time
   status= 0:censored 1:not censored)

do this, but what's the method used? Is it a Lynden-Bell (Woodroofe)
estimator or something else?
Regards
Martina Gandini



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