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reduced.sample.Rd
\name{reduced.sample}
\alias{reduced.sample}
\title{Reduced Sample Estimator using Histogram Data}
\description{
Compute the Reduced Sample estimator of a survival time distribution
function, from histogram data
}
\usage{
reduced.sample(nco, cen, ncc, show=FALSE, uppercen=0)
}
\arguments{
\item{nco}{vector of counts giving the histogram of
uncensored observations (those survival times that are less than or
equal to the censoring time)
}
\item{cen}{vector of counts giving the histogram of
censoring times
}
\item{ncc}{vector of counts giving the histogram of
censoring times for the uncensored observations only
}
\item{uppercen}{
number of censoring times greater than the rightmost
histogram breakpoint (if there are any)
}
\item{show}{Logical value controlling the amount of detail
returned by the function value (see below)
}
}
\value{
If \code{show = FALSE}, a numeric vector giving the values of
the reduced sample estimator.
If \code{show=TRUE}, a list with three components which are
vectors of equal length,
\item{rs}{Reduced sample estimate of the survival time c.d.f. \eqn{F(t)}
}
\item{numerator}{numerator of the reduced sample estimator
}
\item{denominator}{denominator of the reduced sample estimator
}
}
\details{
This function is needed mainly for internal use in \pkg{spatstat},
but may be useful in other applications where you want to form the
reduced sample estimator from a huge dataset.
Suppose \eqn{T_i}{T[i]} are the survival times of individuals
\eqn{i=1,\ldots,M} with unknown distribution function \eqn{F(t)}
which we wish to estimate. Suppose these times are right-censored
by random censoring times \eqn{C_i}{C[i]}.
Thus the observations consist of right-censored survival times
\eqn{\tilde T_i = \min(T_i,C_i)}{T*[i] = min(T[i],C[i])}
and non-censoring indicators
\eqn{D_i = 1\{T_i \le C_i\}}{D[i] = 1(T[i] <= C[i])}
for each \eqn{i}.
If the number of observations \eqn{M} is large, it is efficient to
use histograms.
Form the histogram \code{cen} of all censoring times \eqn{C_i}{C[i]}.
That is, \code{obs[k]} counts the number of values
\eqn{C_i}{C[i]} in the interval
\code{(breaks[k],breaks[k+1]]} for \eqn{k > 1}
and \code{[breaks[1],breaks[2]]} for \eqn{k = 1}.
Also form the histogram \code{nco} of all uncensored times,
i.e. those \eqn{\tilde T_i}{T*[i]} such that \eqn{D_i=1}{D[i]=1},
and the histogram of all censoring times for which the survival time
is uncensored,
i.e. those \eqn{C_i}{C[i]} such that \eqn{D_i=1}{D[i]=1}.
These three histograms are the arguments passed to \code{kaplan.meier}.
The return value \code{rs} is the reduced-sample estimator
of the distribution function \eqn{F(t)}. Specifically,
\code{rs[k]} is the reduced sample estimate of \code{F(breaks[k+1])}.
The value is exact, i.e. the use of histograms does not introduce any
approximation error.
Note that, for the results to be valid, either the histogram breaks
must span the censoring times, or the number of censoring times
that do not fall in a histogram cell must have been counted in
\code{uppercen}.
}
\seealso{
\code{\link{kaplan.meier}},
\code{\link{km.rs}}
}
\author{\adrian
and \rolf
}
\keyword{spatial}
\keyword{nonparametric}