create_training_data {spect}R Documentation

Generates modeling data from a person-period data set.

Description

Generates modeling data from a person-period data set.

Usage

create_training_data(person_period_data, time_col, event_col, cens)

Arguments

person_period_data

A discrete-time data set. Generally, this will be output from the 'create_person_period_data' function.

time_col

A string specifying the name of the column which contains the survival time.

event_col

A string specifying the name of the column which contains the event indicator.

cens

Specifies how to apply censored data. Valid values are "same" - considers censorship to occur in the same interval as the survival time, "prev" - considers censorship to occur in the prior interval, and "half" - considers censorship to occur in the same interval as survival time if the individual survived for at least half of that interval.

Value

A discrete-time data set suitable for training using any binary classifer.

Author(s)

Stephen Abrams, stephen.abrams@louisville.edu

See Also

[create_person_period_data()]


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