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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005252113280.30253-100000@pc16.stat.umu.se>
Date: 2000-05-25T19:25:14Z
From: Göran Broström
Subject: Kaplan-Meier for left truncated data?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005242012330.27454-100000@pc16.stat.umu.se>

I have got two late answers to this question, from Mai Zhou and Bendix
Carstensen. Both point out a 'trick': Use  coxph  to fit a model with
no covariates and ask for the 'baseline hazard' of that fit!  
Unlike  survfit,  coxph  allows for left truncated data.

Thanks to both!

G?ran

> On Sun, 21 May 2000, gb wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is there a function somewhere for estimating the survivor function
> > (plus confidence limits) when data are both left truncated and right
> > censored?  survfit in  survival5  doesn't like left truncation.

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