R help - Jan 2006 - p-value of Logrank-Test

Hello!

I want to compare two Kaplan-Meier-Curves by using the Logrank-Test:

logrank(Surv(time[b], status[b]) ~ group[b])

This way I only get the value of the test-statistic, but not the p-value.

Does anybody know how I can get the p-value?

Thanks in advance!

Verena Hoffmann

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Verena Hoffmann wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want to compare two Kaplan-Meier-Curves by using the Logrank-Test:
>
> logrank(Surv(time[b], status[b]) ~ group[b])
>
> This way I only get the value of the test-statistic, but not the p-value.
>
> Does anybody know how I can get the p-value?
>
You don't say where you found the logrank() function, but

a)  The survdiff() function in the survival package gives p-values as well 
as test statistic for the logrank test

b) The test statistic presumably has a  chisquare null distribution, so 
pchisq() would turn it into a p-value.

 	-thomas