get.meta {dpasurv}R Documentation

Internal function that gathers meta data on the input to function dpa

Description

Do not call this function on its own

Usage

get.meta(out.formula, mediator.formulas, data)

Arguments

out.formula

Survival formula for Aalen's additive hazards model.

mediator.formulas

list of mediator regression formulas.

data

Data set in counting process format. In particular the data should contain a "start", "stop" and "event" column along with any mediators and baseline covariates.

Value

list of meta data associated with out.formula and mediator.formulas. Consists of the following fields:

outcome

list containing variable names for startt, stopt, event, and right hand side of out.formula

mediator

list containing response variable name and right hand side of mediator.formulas

variables

list containing the class of variables in out.formula and mediator.formulas

Examples

library(dpasurv)

data(simdata)

meta <- get.meta(Surv(start, stop, event) ~ x + M, list(M ~ x), simdata)

[Package dpasurv version 0.1.0 Index]