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Dear R users: Recently, I tried to write a program to calculate cross-validated predicted value. My sources are as follows. However, the R reported an error. Could you please check the sources? Thanks. set.seed(100) x<-rnorm(100) y<-sample(rep(0:1,50),replace=T) dat<-data.frame(x,y) library(rms) fito<-lrm(y~x) preo<-predict(fito) pre<-matrix(NA,nrow=100,ncol=200) for (i in

After upgrading R to 2.9.2, I can't use the anova() fuction. It says "could not find function "Varcov" ". What's wrong with my computer? Help needed, thanks! Yao Zhu Department of Urology Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center No. 270 Dongan Road, Shanghai, China [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, everyone. I know it may be a basic statistical question. But I can't find a good answer. I have a question raised by one of the reviewers. Factor A expression was strongly correlated with B expression (chi-square) in this series. Prior reports by the same authors showed that B expression strongly correlated with survival (Log-rank). Please provide an explanation why then were the results

Hi, everyone: I ask for help about translating a stata program into R. The program perform cross validation as it stated. #1. Randomly divide the data set into 10 sets of equal size, ensuring equal numbers of events in each set #2. Fit the model leaving out the 1st set #3. Apply the fitted model in (2) to the 1st set to obtain the predicted probability of a prostate cancer diagnosis. #4. Repeat

Dear R users: In stat, there is a "stpower" function for power analysis and sample-size determination in survival models. Is there a counterpart in R? Thanks Yao Zhu Department of Urology Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Shanghai, China [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear experts: I am a newbie to R. Recently, I try to make prediction models with R and the Design library. I have read Prof. Harrell's excellent book. But I did not quite understand. I have two problems about the validation and calibration of prediction models: 1. Can someone explain the results outputted by the validate() function? How to get 95% of c-value of validate? 2. How to add 95% ci

Hi all, I've got a project where I have to calculate weight-for-age Z-scores, preferably using the WHO standards. WHO have been very nice to publish macros for doing this in both STATA,SPSS, SAS and Splus formats (see http://www.who.int/childgrowth/software/en/), but for some reason have chosen not to use the free R alternative to Splus. In the Splus zipfile there are nine datafiles with a

Dear R users: I want to externally validate a model with val.surv. Can I use only calculated survival (at 1 year) and actual survival? Or I needed the survival function and actual survival. Thanks *Yao Zhu* *Department of Urology Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Shanghai, China* [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R users: In Prof. Harrell's library rms, calibrate.rms plot the Bias-corrected Probability and Apparent Probability. The latter one can be retrieved from class calibrate.default. But how to retrieve the former one. BW *Yao Zhu* *Department of Urology Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Shanghai, China* [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R users: I tried to use val.surv to give an internal validation of survival prediction model. I used the sample sources. # Generate failure times from an exponential distribution set.seed(123) # so can reproduce results n <- 1000 age <- 50 + 12*rnorm(n) sex <- factor(sample(c('Male','Female'), n, rep=TRUE, prob=c(.6, .4))) cens <- 15*runif(n) h

Dear R users: Recently, I learn to use penalized logistic regression. Two packages (penalized and glmnet) have the function of lasso. So I write these code. However, I got different results of coef. Can someone kindly explain. # lasso using penalized library(penalized) pena.fit2<-penalized(HRLNM,penalized=~CN+NoSus,lambda1=1,model="logistic",standardize=TRUE) pena.fit2

Dear useRs: I use pROC package to compute the bootstrap C.I. of AUC. The command was as follows: roc1<-roc(all$D,all$pre,ci=TRUE,boot.n=200) However, the result was: Area under the curve: 0.5903 95% CI: 0.479-0.7016 (DeLong) Why the C.I. was computed by the Delong Method? Yao Zhu Department of Urology Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Shanghai, China [[alternative HTML version

Dear all: I have used the cph function in the rms package. log10 was used to transform the variables, as follows: fit<-cph(pfsurv~log10(x1)+log10(x2),x=T,y=T,surv=T) after I run the nomogram function. I found "variable limits and transformations are such that an infinite axis value has resulted." How to add variable limits in the nomogram function? Thanks a lot *Yao Zhu*

We are constructing growth charts (age/weight and age/length) for children with diagnosis that impacts weight/length. But we we don't know how to use R for producing growth charts. We are collection data of Age, Weight and Length. The data are used to produce diagnosis-specific Growth charts (like the CDC Growth Charts:

Dear UseRs: Recently, I have read an article regarding the association between age and lymph node metastases. http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/27/18/2931.long In statistical analysis, the authors stated "Because a nonlinear relationship between age and lymph node involvement was expected based on existing literature, lymph node involvement was also regressed on age using nonparametric

Dear Sir or Madam? I am a doctor of urology,and I am engaged in developing a nomogram of bladder cancer. May I ask for your help on below issue? I set up a dataset which include 317 cases. I got the Binary Logistic Regression model by SPSS.And then I try to reconstruct the model ?lrm(RECU~Complication+T.Num+T.Grade+Year+TS)? by R-Project,and try to internal validate the model through

Dear R users Function improveProb in the rms library calculate NRI and IDI for predictions of binary outcome. Do anyone extent its use in survival data? Many thanks. *Yao Zhu* *Department of Urology Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Shanghai, China* [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R users, I am a new R user and something stops me when I try to write a academic article. I want to make a nomogram to predict the risk of prostate cancer (PCa) using several factors which have been selected from the Logistic regression run under the SPSS. Always, a calibration plot is needed to validate the prediction accuracy of the nomogram. However, I tried many times and read a lot of

Hi, I've just installed CentOS version 5 on a laptop Acer ASPIRE 5920. But could not start X window. It got following error message: Using confi file" "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes (EE) Screens(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fetal server error: no screens found XIO: fetal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"

Dear r users I have a question in coding continuous variables in logistic regression. When "rcs" is used in transforming variables, sometime it gives implausible associations with the outcome although the model x2 is high. So what's your tips and tricks in coding continuous variables. P.S. How to code variables as linear+square in the formula such as lrm. lrm(y~x+sqrt(x))