Description
Select interview or move-out day for duration and mark rightCensored when ongoing.
Longitudinal ageing research links observations to people, waves, and sources. A person may appear in multiple records, so distinct-person coverage and record counts answer different questions and require explicit duplicate rules.
Select interview or move-out day for duration and mark rightCensored when ongoing.
When to use this tool
Use Life History Residence Duration Censor Flag when you need a record-coverage or source-support diagnostic in ageing research.
How to use the tool and how it works
- Enter moveInDay, moveOutDay, interviewDay, ongoing. Use the units and conventions below.
- Run the tool. Correct any format, range, or cross-field input error before interpreting the output.
- Read endDay, residenceDays, rightCensored. Inspect rightCensored before interpreting the associated values.
Require interviewDay no earlier than moveInDay and, when not ongoing, moveOutDay within those endpoints. Select interview or move-out day for duration and mark rightCensored when ongoing.1
| Input field | Meaning and units | Accepted input |
|---|---|---|
| moveInDay | Move In Day | Required. Safe integer. |
| moveOutDay | Move Out Day | Required. Safe integer. |
| interviewDay | Interview Day | Required. Safe integer. |
| ongoing | Ongoing | Required. Boolean. |
| Output field | Interpretation | Returned shape |
|---|---|---|
| endDay | End Day | Required. Safe integer. |
| residenceDays | Residence Days | Required. Safe integer. |
| rightCensored | Ongoing residence ends at observation for measurement and remains right censored. | Required. Boolean. |
{
"input": {
"moveInDay": 100,
"moveOutDay": 0,
"interviewDay": 500,
"ongoing": true
},
"output": {
"endDay": 500,
"residenceDays": 400,
"rightCensored": true
}
}Limitations and assumptions
- For ongoing residence the observed duration is a lower bound, not its eventual length; no dates, residence status, record accuracy, or legal occupancy rights are verified.
- Inputs must satisfy both the field types and the cross-field conditions above. Invalid input causes an error; a successful false flag or documented placeholder is a different result.
- Numeric calculations use binary floating point unless exact decimal-integer arithmetic is explicitly stated. No hidden measurement tolerance or decimal rounding is added; nonfinite or out-of-contract results are rejected. Numeric signed-zero results are exported as zero.
Alternative or Complementary methods
Review the original study design, identifiers, and missing-data definitions. Use the full longitudinal dataset for inference rather than treating a local coverage flag as evidence of representativeness.
References
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