TimeVaryingCovariate function

Create a time-varying covariate. This covariate will be implemented using EVID=2 rows in the exported dataset and will not use interruption events.

TimeVaryingCovariate(name, table)

Arguments

• name: covariate name, character
• table: data.frame, must contain the mandatory columns 'TIME' and 'VALUE'. An 'ID' column may also be specified. In that case, ID's between 1 and the max number of subjects in the dataset/arm can be used. All ID's must have a VALUE defined for TIME 0.

Returns

a time-varying covariate