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estSurv

Estimated Survival Function


Description

Estimates the survival function S(T=t|x) based on estimated hazard rates. The hazard rates may or may not depend on covariates. The covariates have to be equal across all estimated hazard rates. Therefore the given hazard rates should only vary over time.

Usage

estSurv(haz)

Arguments

haz

Numeric vector of estimated hazard rates.

Details

The argument *haz* must be given for the all intervals [a_0, a_1), [a_1, a_2), ..., [a_q-1, a_q), [a_q, Inf).

Value

Named vector of estimated probabilities of survival.

Note

It is assumed that all time points up to the last interval [a_q, Inf) are available. If not already present, these can be added manually.

Author(s)

References

Gerhard Tutz and Matthias Schmid, (2016), Modeling discrete time-to-event data, Springer series in statistics, Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28158-2

See Also

Examples

# Example unemployment data
library(Ecdat)
data(UnempDur)

# Select subsample
subUnempDur <- UnempDur [1:100, ]

# Convert to long format
UnempLong <- dataLong (dataSet=subUnempDur, timeColumn="spell", censColumn="censor1")
head(UnempLong)

# Estimate binomial model with logit link
Fit <- glm(formula=y ~ timeInt + age + logwage, data=UnempLong, family=binomial())

# Estimate discrete survival function given age, logwage of first person
hazard <- predict(Fit, newdata=subset(UnempLong, obj==1), type="response")
SurvivalFuncCondX <- estSurv(c(hazard, 1))
SurvivalFuncCondX

discSurv

Discrete Time Survival Analysis

v1.4.1
GPL-3
Authors
Thomas Welchowski <welchow@imbie.meb.uni-bonn.de> and Matthias Schmid <matthias.schmid@imbie.uni-bonn.de>
Initial release
2019-12-10

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