JMbayes2: crLong – R documentation

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crLong

Transform Competing Risks Data in Long Format

Description

In a competing risks setting this function expands the data frame with a single row per subject to a data frame in the long format in which each subject has as many rows as the number of competing events.

Usage

crLong(data, statusVar, censLevel,
    nameStrata = "strata", nameStatus = "status2")

Arguments

`data`	the data frame containing the competing risk data with a single row per subject.
`statusVar`	a character string denoting the name of the variable in `data` that identifies the status variable which equals 1 if the subject had any of the competing events and 0 otherwise.
`censLevel`	a character string or a scalar denoting the censoring level in the `statusVar` variable of `data`.
`nameStrata`	a character string denoting the variable that will be added in the long version of `data` denoting the various causes of event.
`nameStatus`	a character string denoting the variable that will be added in the long version of `data` denoting if the subject experience any of the competing events.

Value

A data frame in the long format with multiple rows per subject.

Author(s)

Dimitris Rizopoulos d.rizopoulos@erasmusmc.nl

References

Rizopoulos, D. (2012) Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data: with Applications in R. Boca Raton: Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Putter, H., Fiocco, M., and Geskus, R. (2007). Tutorial in biostatistics: Competing risks and multi-state models. Statistics in Medicine 26, 2389–2430.

Examples

head(crLong(pbc2.id, "status", "alive"))

JMbayes2

Extended Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data

v0.1-5

GPL (>= 3)

Authors

Dimitris Rizopoulos [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9397-0900>), Grigorios Papageorgiou [aut], Pedro Miranda Afonso [aut]

Initial release

2021-03-09