[R] survival analysis

Jun Yan jyan at stat.wisc.edu
Wed Nov 20 16:19:36 CET 2002


I am not sure if this is what you want. The function lifetab in package
KMsurv creates a cohort life table as described in Klein and Moeschberger
(1997), Survival Analysis.

> library(KMsurv)
> ?lifetab

Jun

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Paul Pynsent wrote:

> Has anybody written an actuarial (life) survival procedure, this does 
> not appear to be an option in the survival package?
> This approach is common in orthopaedic surgery to demonstrate the 
> survival of prostheses.
> I need to apply the "modified" lower conf.int because of the censoring 
> over time.
> I want a life table which I can then easily plot.
> Many thanks
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