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Hi all, Has any body the exprience to iclude a nonparametric component into the survival analysis using R package? *Can someone recommend *me * some ** references? * Thanks a lot Ashta [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear List, Does anybody no how to compare mean survival times for two (more) groups in R? What test statistics should I use? Thank you very much! Joe [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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

Hi all, Is there an equivalent to predict(...,type="linear") of a Proportional hazard model for a Cox model instead? For example, the Figure 13.12 in MASS (p384) is produced by: (aids.ps <- survreg(Surv(survtime + 0.9, status) ~ state + T.categ + pspline(age, df=6), data = Aidsp)) zz <- predict(aids.ps, data.frame(state = factor(rep("NSW", 83), levels =

Hello, I am trying to find an R function to compute 'direct adjusted survival' with standard errors. A SAS-macro to do this is presented in Zhang X, Loberiza FR, Klein JP, Zhang MJ. A SAS macro for estimation of direct adjusted survival curves based on a stratified Cox regression model. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2007;88:95-101. It appears that this method is not implemented in R.

Has anybody written an actuarial (life) survival procedure, this does not appear to be an option in the survival package? This approach is common in orthopaedic surgery to demonstrate the survival of prostheses. I need to apply the "modified" lower conf.int because of the censoring over time. I want a life table which I can then easily plot. Many thanks

Dear R users I would like to calculate the Cumulative incidence for an event adjusting for competing risks and adjusting for covariates. One way to do this in R is to use the cmprsk package, function crr. This uses the Fine & Gray regression model. However, a simpler and more classical approach would be to implement the Kalbfleisch & Prentice method (1980, p 169), where one fits cause

Why do I get different sign of the coefficients of covariates when I run the semi-parametric proportional hazard model (coxph) compared to the parametric proportional hazard model (survreg)? Anyone with experience in extracting information form survreg to make predictions are free to contact me. Cheers, Ullrika [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R-help, I was comparing SAS (I do not know what version it is) and R (version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) on Linux) survival analyses with time-dependent covariates. The results differed significantly so I tried to understand on a short example where I went wrong. The following example shows that even when argument 'method' in R function coxph and argument 'ties' in SAS procedure

I am trying to model data in which subjects are followed through time to determine if they fall, or do not fall. Some of the subjects fall once, some fall several times. Follow-up time varies from subject to subject. I know how to model time to the first fall (e.g. Cox Proportional Hazards, Kaplan-Meir analyses, etc.) but I am not sure how I can model the data if I include the data for those

Dear all, I have a couple of questions regarding the survival:::cch function. 1) I notice that Prentice and Self-Prentice functions are giving identical standard errors (not by chance but by programming design) while their estimates are different. My guess is they are both using the standard error form from Self and Prentice (1986). I see that standard errors for both methods are

Dear all, What is the cumulative distribution (with parameterization) used within survreg with respect to the log-logistic distribution? That is, how are the parameters linked to the survivor function? Best regards, Mario [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Does anybody know if there is such a function to estimate the distribution for interval censored data? survfit doesn't work for this type of data as I tried various references. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, This is a rather lengthy message, but I don't know what I made wrong in my real example since the simple code works. I have two variables a, b and a function f for which I would like to calculate all possible combinations of the values of a and b. If f is multiplication, I would simply do: a <- 1:5 b <- 1:5 outer(a,b) ## A bit more complicated is this: f <-

Dear all, This is a rather lengthy message, but I don't know what I made wrong in my real example since the simple code works. I have two variables a, b and a function f for which I would like to calculate all possible combinations of the values of a and b. If f is multiplication, I would simply do: a <- 1:5 b <- 1:5 outer(a,b) ## A bit more complicated is this: f <-

Dear list: I am attempting to use what I thought would be a pretty straightforward practical application of Cox regression. I figure users of the survival package must have come across this problem before, so I would like to ask you how you dealt with it. I have set up an illustrative example and included it at the end of this post. I took a sample of 100 data points from each of two populations

Hi, In the package survival, using the function survreg for AFT model, I only see 4 distributions for the response y: weibull, gaussian, logistic, lognormal and log-logistic, which correspond to certain distributions for the error terms. I'm wondering if there is a package or how to obtain the parameter estimates (the beta's are of great interest) from the AFT model (maximizing

I will be giving a course in survival analysis using R (of course!) for people who know nothing about the subject (including R), but know basic statistics. I'm looking for a suitable course book. Therneau & Grambsch (2000) is an excellent book, but too much for this course. I need somthing more elementary. I have a vague memory saying that such books exist, but I cannot find any for the

Hello, I am interested in producing the expected number of events, in a recurring events setting. I am using the Andersen-Gill model, as fit by the function "coxph" in the package "survival." I need to produce expected numbers of events for a cohort, cumulatively, at several fixed times. My ultimate goal is: To fit an AG model to a reference sample, then use that fitted model

Hello! I have a matrix with data and a column indicating whether it is censored or not. Is there a way to apply weibull and exponential maximum likelihood estimation directly on the censored data, like in the paper: Backtesting Value-at-Risk: A Duration-Based Approach, P Chrisoffersen and D Pelletier (October 2003) page 8? The problem is that if I type out the code as below the likelihood