Updates the censoring information in a result object for later re-estimation

update_censoring is a function that updates information about a censoring variable in the model_specification object within a result object. The function can drop an existing censoring variable, re-specify the model for an existing censoring variable, or add a new censoring variable and model.

update_censoring(
  obj,
  name = NULL,
  new_formula = NULL,
  new_estimator = NULL,
  drop = FALSE
)

Arguments

obj

A result object

name

A new variable name

new_formula

A new formula, which can be described as updates to an existing object

new_estimator

A new function used to estimate the conditional probability of treatment

drop

Drops the censoring variable from an analysis (default drop = FALSE)

Value

A result object that contains an updated model_specification component.

Author

M. Alan Brookhart