Readme file

SERIES C  
Applied Statistics

Models for longitudinal data with censored changepoints, by C.H.Jackson and L.D. Sharples
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, Applied Statistics, Volume 53 (2003) part 1, 149-162

Data sets used in the analysis

fev.dat
Columns correspond to patient ID, months after transplant, percentage of baseline FEV1 and an indicator for the occurrence of an acute event within 14 days of the observation time

earlyacute.dat
Columns correspond to patient ID, a dummy variable of all ones, the number of acute rejections in the first six months after transplant, an indicator for the occurrence of CMV in the first six months, and the number of episodes of other types of infection within the first six months.

Program source code files

The program is written in C++ and consists of the following source files: data.cc, main.cc, options.cc, output.cc, params.cc, routines.cc, arms.c, random.c, matrix.c, mix.hh, routines.hh, arms.h, random.h, matrix.h

The file 'Makefile' is used to control compilation of the sources.
The files medium.cmd, medium.in and priors.in contain options for specifying the model to be run, the location of the data and optionsfor controlling the MCMC.
The program has only been tested on Linux and Solaris systems, using the C++ compiler g++ (part of the GNU compiler collection "gcc").

Instructions for use of the program
Brief instructions for how to construct the configuration files and run the program are given in the file MANUAL.txt.

Christopher Jackson
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Imperial College School of Medicine
Norfolk Place
London
W2 1PG
UK

E-mail: chris.jackson@imperial.ac.uk

Journals

SERIES A
Statistics in Society

SERIES B
Statistical Methodology

SERIES C
Applied Statistics

SERIES D
The Statistician