tranSurv:Transformation Model Based Survival Curve Estimation with Dependent Left Truncation

A package that estimates survival curve under a dependent truncation and independent right censoring via a structural transformation method. The package also includes hypothesis test of quasi-independence based on the conditional Kendall's tau of Martin and Betensky (2005) and two versions of the inverse probability weighted Kendall's tau of Austin and Betensky (2014).

References

Martin E. and Betensky R. A. (2005), Testing quasi-independence of failure and truncation times via conditional Kendall's tau, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100 (470): 484-492.

Austin, M. D. and Betensky R. A. (2014), Eliminating bias due to censoring in Kendall's tau estimators for quasi-independence of truncation and failure, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 73: 16-26.

Chiou, S., Austin, M., Qian, J. and Betensky R. A. (2016), Transformation model estimation of survival under dependent truncation and independent censoring, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 28 (12): 3785-3798.

See also

Useful links:

• http://github.com/stc04003/tranSurv

• Report bugs at http://github.com/stc04003/tranSurv/issues