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I am cleaning up the rms package to not export functions not to be called directly by users. rms uses generic functions defined in other packages. For example there is a latex method in the Hmisc package, and rms has a latex method for objects of class "anova.rms" so there are anova.rms and latex.anova.rms functions in rms. I use:

Dear All, For logistic regression models: is it possible to use validate (rms package) to compute bias-corrected AUC, but have variable selection with AIC use step (or stepAIC, from MASS), instead of fastbw? More details: I've been using the validate function (in the rms package, by Frank Harrell) to obtain, among other things, bootstrap bias-corrected estimates of the AUC, when variable

A major new version of the rms package is now on CRAN. The most user-visible changes are: - interactive plotly graphic methods for model fits. The best example of this is survplot for npsurv (Kaplan-Meier) estimates where the number of risk pop up as you hover over the curves, and you can click to bring up confidence bands for differences in survival curves - html methods for model fit

A major new version of the rms package is now on CRAN. The most user-visible changes are: - interactive plotly graphic methods for model fits. The best example of this is survplot for npsurv (Kaplan-Meier) estimates where the number of risk pop up as you hover over the curves, and you can click to bring up confidence bands for differences in survival curves - html methods for model fit

The rms ("Regression Modeling Strategies") package has undergone a massive update. The entire list of updates is at the bottom of this note. CRAN has the update for linux and will soon have it for Windows and Mac - check http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rms/ for availability. This rms update relies on a major update of the Hmisc package. The most user-visible changes are:

This is to announce a new package rms on CRAN. rms goes along with my book Regression Modeling Strategies. The home page for rms is http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/rms, or go directly to http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/Rrms for information just about the software. rms is a re-write of the Design package that has improved graphics and that duplicates very little code in the survival

This is to announce a new package rms on CRAN. rms goes along with my book Regression Modeling Strategies. The home page for rms is http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/rms, or go directly to http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/Rrms for information just about the software. rms is a re-write of the Design package that has improved graphics and that duplicates very little code in the survival

Hi folks, Using R Version 1.6.2 (2003-01-10) on SuSE Linux 7.2, I just installed Hmisc_1.5-3.tar.gz and Design_1.1-5.tar.gz These were taken from http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/library/r Checked the dependencies: Hmisc: grid, lattice, mva, acepack -- all already installed Design: Hmisc, survival -- survival already installed, so installed Hmisc first All seems to go

Version 2.2-0 of the rms package is now available. This is a somewhat major update. One major change is not downward compatible: Instead of specifying predictor=. or predictor=NA to Predict, summary, nomogram, survplot, gendata, you just specify the name of the predictor. For example, to get predictions for the default range of x1 and for just 2 values of x2 you might specify Predict(fit,

Version 2.2-0 of the rms package is now available. This is a somewhat major update. One major change is not downward compatible: Instead of specifying predictor=. or predictor=NA to Predict, summary, nomogram, survplot, gendata, you just specify the name of the predictor. For example, to get predictions for the default range of x1 and for just 2 values of x2 you might specify Predict(fit,

Hello! I have created a bplot-figure using this code: *file <- "2dcali_red.ttt" ux<-as.matrix(read.table(file, dec = ",")) mode(ux)<-'numeric' vel<-ux[,1] ang<-ux[,2] x<-ux[,3] y<-ux[,4] dat<- data.frame(ang=ang, x=x,y=y) require(rms) ddist2 <- datadist(dat) options(datadist="ddist2") fitn <- lrm(ang ~ rcs(x,4) +

The rms package, a replacement for the Design package, has been updated on CRAN. The most major change is the addition of smooth calibration curves for externally (val.surv function) or internally (calibrate.cph, calibrate.psm) validating a survival model with right-censored data. The polspline package is used to estimate the survival probability at a fixed time point as a function of the

The rms package, a replacement for the Design package, has been updated on CRAN. The most major change is the addition of smooth calibration curves for externally (val.surv function) or internally (calibrate.cph, calibrate.psm) validating a survival model with right-censored data. The polspline package is used to estimate the survival probability at a fixed time point as a function of the

I have a plot produced by function bplot (package = rms) that is really a lattice plot (class="trellis"). It is similar to this plot produced by a very minor modification of the first example on the bplot help page: requiere(rms) n <- 1000 # define sample size set.seed(17) # so can reproduce the results age <- rnorm(n, 50, 10) blood.pressure <- rnorm(n, 120,

Hello I'm using logistic regression from the Design library (lrm), then fastbw to undertake a backward selection and create a reduced model, before trying to make predictions against an independent set of data using predict.lrm with the reduced model. I wouldn't normally use this method, but I'm contrasting the results with an AIC/MMI approach. The script contains: # Determine full

There is both a technical and a theoretical element to my question... Should I be able to use the outputs which arise from the fastbw function as inputs to nomogram(). I seem to be failing at this, -- I obtain a subscript out of range error. That I can't do this may speak to technical failings, but I suspect it is because Prof Harrell thinks/knows it injudicious. However, I can't

Hello, I apologize for the post as I am certainly overlooking a simple solution to my difficulties with getting a legend to print on a survplot from the rms package. I am plotting the following: survplot(survest(fita), n.risk=T, conf='none', cex.n.risk=.85, dots=T, col='gray10', lty=2) survplot(survest(fit), n.risk=F, conf='none', add=T) survplot(survest(fitb), n.risk=F,

I want to employ a parsimonious model to draw nomograms, as the full model is too complex to draw nomograms readily (several interactions of continuous variables). However, one interesting variable stays or leaves based on whether I choose "p value" or "AIC" options to fastbw(). My question boils down to this: Is there a theoretical reason to prefer one over another?

Dear R users, For the purpose of validating a prediction model using validate() from the rms package, I am running into some trouble with using the fastbw() function breaking up natural groups of variables. Is there any way I can specify to keep certain variable together? In particular, if interactions are included I would also like to keep the main effects in the model. Another example is a

CRAN has a significant update to rms. Windows and unix/linux versions are available and I expect the Mac version to be available soon. The most significant improvement is addition of latex=TRUE arguments to model fitting print methods, made especially for use with Sweave. Here is a summary of changes since the previous version. Changes in version 3.1-0 (2010-09-12) * Fixed gIndex to not