3 Esimerkkikoodi

Edellä mainitussa artikkelissa oli vain minimaalinen harjoitusdatasetti, joka näkyy alla. Sen muoto/muuttujat ovat seuraavanlaiset (lähde: Grafféon ym. (PMID: 31442762):

This Toy Example Data is given in wide format. It contains the following variables:

  • id is the patient’s identifier,
  • randt is the date of the randomization visit,
  • lastdt is the date of latest news,
  • status is equal to 1 if the patient dies on lastdt (and 0 otherwise),
  • age is the patient’s age,
  • ps1, ps2, ps3 are the values of a covariate measured at dates randt, dt2, dt3, respectively
  • arm is the patient’s randomized arm,
  • swtrtdt is the date when the patient initiates the other arm treatment (NA if does not happen).


id randt lastdt status age ps1 ps2 ps3 dt2 dt3 arm swtrtdt
1 2018-01-12 2018-03-02 1 20 0 0 0 2018-02-02 2018-03-01 A 2018-03-01
2 2017-11-04 2017-12-15 1 50 1 NA 2 NA 2017-12-12 B NA
3 2017-05-20 2018-01-04 0 40 0 0 1 2017-08-02 2018-01-02 A NA