cluster {survival} | R Documentation

## Identify Clusters

### Description

This is a special function used in the context of the Cox model. It identifies correlated groups of observations, and is used on the right hand side of a formula.

### Usage

    cluster(x)

### Arguments

`x` | A character, factor, or numeric variable.

### Details

The function's only action is semantic, to mark a variable as the cluster indicator.

### Value

`x`

### See Also

`coxph`, `Surv`

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    coxph(Surv(futime, fustat) ~ age + cluster(group), data = ovarian)
    ## End(Not run)

[Package survival version 2.15 Index]