[R] missing values and survival analysis

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Mon Apr 12 16:36:13 CEST 2004


On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 john.ferguson at yale.edu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm analysing a survival analysis data set at the moment with missing
> values in the covariate and survival vectors (I have about 60
> variables).  I know there are some functions on the CRAN network to
> deal with missing values in general multivariate data.  Does anybody
> know of any package that deals with missing data specifically in the
> context of survival analysis.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'd suggest some form of multiple imputation (eg the Design, norm, mix,
pan packages).

	-thomas




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