>I am having a (really) hard time getting pyears to work together with a > ratetable to give me the number of expected events (deaths).
The most complete discussion of pyears and rate tables is in a technical report from the Biostatistics group at Mayo http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/biostat/ Number 63 I believe. Have you looked at that? 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.
