Force Same Censoring Within Clusters

Enforces the same censoring time within clusters (pairs) by censoring both subjects at the minimum censoring time when censoring occurs first.

Usage

force.same.cens(
  data,
  id = "id",
  time = "time",
  cause = "cause",
  entrytime = NULL,
  cens.code = 0
)

force_same_cens(
  data,
  id = "id",
  time = "time",
  cause = "cause",
  entrytime = NULL,
  cens.code = 0
)

Arguments

data

a data.frame in long format.

id

name of the cluster/pair identifier column.

time

name of the time variable.

cause

name of the cause/status variable.

entrytime

optional name of left-truncation time variable.

cens.code

value indicating censoring in the cause variable.

Value

A data.frame with enforced same censoring.