Get Simulation Raw Data for Survival

Returns the raw survival data which was generated for simulation.

getRawData(x, aggregate = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A SimulationResults object created by getSimulationSurvival().

aggregate

Logical. If TRUE the raw data will be aggregated similar to the result of getData(), default is FALSE.

Value

Returns a data.frame.

Details

This function works only if getSimulationSurvival() was called with a
maxNumberOfRawDatasetsPerStage > 0 (default is 0).

This function can be used to get the simulated raw data from a simulation results object obtained by getSimulationSurvival(). Note that getSimulationSurvival() must called before with maxNumberOfRawDatasetsPerStage > 0. The data frame contains the following columns:

1. iterationNumber: The number of the simulation iteration.

2. stopStage: The stage of stopping.

3. subjectId: The subject id (increasing number 1, 2, 3, ...)

4. accrualTime: The accrual time, i.e., the time when the subject entered the trial.

5. treatmentGroup: The treatment group number (1 or 2).

6. survivalTime: The survival time of the subject.

7. dropoutTime: The dropout time of the subject (may be NA).

8. lastObservationTime: The specific observation time.

9. timeUnderObservation: The time under observation is defined as follows:

   if (event == TRUE) {
       timeUnderObservation <- survivalTime
   } else if (dropoutEvent == TRUE) {
       timeUnderObservation <- dropoutTime
   } else {
       timeUnderObservation <- lastObservationTime - accrualTime
   }

10. event: TRUE if an event occurred; FALSE otherwise.

11. dropoutEvent: TRUE if an dropout event occurred; FALSE otherwise.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
results <- getSimulationSurvival(
    pi1 = seq(0.3, 0.6, 0.1), pi2 = 0.3, eventTime = 12,
    accrualTime = 24, plannedEvents = 40, maxNumberOfSubjects = 200,
    maxNumberOfIterations = 50, maxNumberOfRawDatasetsPerStage = 5
)
rawData <- getRawData(results)
head(rawData)
dim(rawData)
} # }