> Patients are either fully oriented or not (1 or 2) after an hour. If they're > not, then the data is right censored.
It doesn't look like right censored data to me, unless the time variable were "time to full orientation"; you labeled it "time to awake" which appears to be something different. However, to answer your coxme question the random effect would be (1| MRN/COURSE) which stands for a random intercept term for each course, and one for each mrn within course. This is the same notation as lmer. Terry Therneau ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.