I am working on a famous data set from this book. The data set consists of measurements on 418 patients. I am interested on modelling the variable;
futime: number of days between registration and the earlier of death, transplantion, or study analysis time in July, 1986
in terms of some other variables. One of these variables takes three values:
status : 0=alive, 1=liver transplant, 2=dead
I understand that if status=0
, then the observed time is right-censored; if status=2
, then the observed time is a point observation (am I correct?). However, I don't understand what status=1
would mean in terms of the observed time. I would appreciate any pointers about this.