Closed mattwarkentin closed 3 years ago
I can't see any reason not to add start
, so happy for you to do this.
type="link"
refers to the value of the location parameter of the distribution, adjusted for the covariates that you supply. I can't see how that could be described as a time dependent quantity, unlike say the survival probability or hazard.
Hi @chjackson,
Do you think the
start
argument should be added to thepredict.flexsurvreg
method (and passed on tosummary.flexsurvreg
, which actually does the work)?I don't recall if there was a reason we omitted this argument when creating the predict method. I would be happy to contribute the PR if you want this addition.
As a side note for my understanding, is there a reason why the
times
argument is ignored for predictions oftype = "link"
and predictions are made at time = 0 only?