Paul, I happen to be working on the exact same problem. If you found a solution somewhere, please let me know. I will do the same if I stumble onto a solution first.
Rich - cost information can be collected prospectively but be censored due to incomplete follow-up or some other similar reason. This is common when analyzing costs from administrative data sets, where records are collected over time but not everyone has had the outcome of interest (death, remission, whatever). The paper that Paul is referring to is here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12229999 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Analysis-of-censored-cost-data-tp4689336p4693485.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
