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Package

Package-level documentation and object descriptions.

joineR
joineR
joint.object
Fitted joint object

Fitting joint models

Functions to fit and obtain inference for joint models.

joint()
Fit joint model for survival and longitudinal data measured with error
jointSE()
Standard errors via bootstrap for a joint model fit

Data preparation

Functions to create and manipulate jointdata objects.

jointdata()
Creates an object of class jointdata
UniqueVariables()
Extracts the unique non-time dependent variables per patient, from an unbalanced data set
sample.jointdata()
Sample from a jointdata x
subset(<jointdata>)
Subsetting object of class jointdata
to.balanced()
Transform data to the longitudinal balanced format
to.unbalanced()
Transform data to the longitudinal unbalanced format

Visualisation

Plotting functions for longitudinal and joint data.

jointplot()
Joint plot of longitudinal and survival data
plot(<jointdata>)
Plot longitudinal data
points(<jointdata>)
Add points to an existing jointdata plot
lines(<jointdata>)
Add lines to an existing jointdata plot
plot(<vargm>)
Plots the empirical variogram for longitudinal data

Summaries

Summary and print methods.

summary(<joint>)
Summarise a random effects joint model fit
summary(<jointdata>)
Summarise a jointdata object
summarybal()
Summary of a balanced longitudinal data set
tidy(<joint>)
Tidy a joint model fit
glance(<joint>)
Glance at a joint model fit

Simulation and diagnostics

Functions to simulate joint model data and compute variograms.

simjoint()
Simulate data from a joint model
variogram()
Empirical variogram for longitudinal data

Data sets

heart.valve
Aortic valve replacement surgery data
epileptic
Dose calibration of anti-epileptic drugs data
liver
Liver cirrhosis drug trial data
mental
Mental health trial data
aids
AIDS drug trial data