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2011 Jul 22
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Cox model approximaions (was "comparing SAS and R survival....)
For time scale that are truly discrete Cox proposed the "exact partial likelihood". I call that the "exact" method and SAS calls it the "discrete" method. What we compute is precisely the same, however they use a clever algorithm which is faster. To make things even more confusing, Prentice introduced an "exact marginal likelihood" which is not