Competing risks model for simulation

Competing risks model for simulation

crModel()

Value

A structural equation model initialized with four variables: the latent event times of two causes, the latent right censored time, and the observed right censored event time.

Details

Create a competing risks model with to causes to simulate a right censored event time data without covariates

This function requires the lava package.

Author

Thomas A. Gerds

Examples

library(lava)
m <- crModel()
d <- sim(m,6)
print(d)
#>   eventtime1 eventtime2  censtime     time event
#> 1  11.378608   4.255580 10.142075 4.255580     2
#> 2   7.678317   4.598606  9.256727 4.598606     2
#> 3  16.445745   5.749375  5.704949 5.704949     0
#> 4   3.275703   3.640685  5.343199 3.275703     1
#> 5   5.053483  12.332235  8.790858 5.053483     1
#> 6   2.457303  10.226655  6.538515 2.457303     1