R: Variance family function for coxme fits.

coxmeFull {coxme} | R Documentation

## Variance family function for coxme fits.

### Description

This function sets up the default variance family information for a mixed effects survival model fit with `coxme`.

### Usage

    coxmeFull(collapse = FALSE)

### Arguments

`collapse` | Form for fitting a nested effect, either standard or collapsed. The latter appears to be more numerically stable (still under research).

### Details

Coxme variance families create a list with three functions: initialize, generate, and wrapup, that determine how the variance structure of a fit is modeled.

### Value

an object of class coxvar.

### Author(s)

Terry Therneau

### See Also

`coxme`

[Package coxme version 2.2-7 Index]