Dear all,
for a project I want to calculate cancer incidence rates by decades
(0-20,20-30,30-40,..,70-80).
I have left truncated data, my Surv object has the form
Surv(time=age,time2=age2, event, type="counting").
I tried different ways to get results for n, events, and person-years, but the
results are not as expected.
The best results are for
pyears(Surv(age,age2,event)~cut(age,c(0, 20,30,40,50,60,70,80))
+group, data,scale=1)
However, the person-years is too high, since observation time of patients that
start before 20 years of age are added completely to the observation decade of
0-20.
Person 1: 18 -31 years of age observation time
Person 2: 18 - 19 years of age observation time
Result gained: n = 2, pyears = 14 for 0-20 years
Result expected: n=2, pyears=3 for 0-20 years
Furthermore, the documentation says, that the cut function is not advised to
use, but tcut does not work with my data.
What do I have to do to use the pyears-function for left truncated data? Are
there any working examples for that case?
Many thanks and best wishes, Silke Zachariae
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