Bias Assessment in Progression-Free Survival Analysis Using Interval-Censored Methods - Interval-Censored-Time-to-Event Data: Methods and Applications - page 304

2--NLPNRR:Newton-Raphsonridgemethod,
3--NLPQN:quasi-Newtonmethod,
4--NLPCG:conjugategradientoptimizationmethod.
TrtEst=OutputSASdatasetrecordingtheestimatesofcoefficients
andstandarderrors.
TrtTest=OutputSASdatasetrecordingtheteststatisticsandp-values.
OutDrv=Directorykeepingoutputdatasets.
SmPtb=Anumericvariablerepresentingthesmallvaluetobeaddedto
exactsurvivaltimewhenoriginalFinkelsteinmethodisused.
SmLen=,Rdn=Coarseadjustmentontheoriginalintervals.
We use a breast cancer data set from So et al. (2010) to illustrate how to use
the above SAS macros.
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*RadidationTherapy(RT)
*lTimeandrTimerepresenttheleftandright
*endpointoftheintervaltime,respectively
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dataRT;
inputlTimerTime@@;
datalines;
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