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Hi, I'm trying to calculate 95% confidence interval of C statistic of logistic regression model using rcorr.cens in rms package. I wrote a brief function for this purpose as the followings; CstatisticCI <- function(x) # x is object of rcorr.cens. { se <- x["S.D."]/sqrt(x["n"]) Low95 <- x["C Index"] - 1.96*se Upper95 <- x["C

Dear R-helpers, I recently switched from SAS to R, in order to model the occurrence of rare events through logistic regression. Is there a package available in R to calculate the Goodman-Kruskal Gamma? After searching a bit I found a function "rcorr.cens" which should do the job, but it is not clear to me how to define the input vectors? Is "x" a vector with the fitted

Hi R-users, I'm having some problems in using the Hmisc package. I'm estimating a cox ph model and want to test whether the drop in concordance index due to omitting one covariate is significant. I think (but I'm not sure) here are two ways to do that: 1) predict two cox model (the full model and model without the covariate of interest) and estimate the concordance index (i.e. area

Dear r-helpers! I want to classify my vegetation data with hierachical cluster analysis. My Dataset consist of Abundance-Values (Braun-Blanquet ordinal scale; ranked) for each plant species and relev?. I found a lot of r-packages dealing with cluster analysis, but none of them is able to calculate a distance measure for ranked data. Podani recommends the use of Goodman and Kruskals' Gamma for

Dear List, I would like to calculate the Goodman-Kruskal gamma for the predicted classes obtained from an ordinal regression model using lrm in the Design package. I couldn't find a way to get gamma for predicted values in Design so have found previous positings suggesting to use : Rcorr.cens(x, S outx = TRUE) in the Hmisc package My question is, will this work for predicted vs

I am using the rcorr.cens function from the Hmisc package and the time-dependent ROC curve obtained using tdrocc in the survcomp package. I understand that the C statistic from rcorr.cens has to be subtracted from 1 if high values of the risk variable lower survival. Given that I wonder what the connection is between that C statistic and the AUC from the tdrocc object. If they are substantially

Dear R-help, I am having a problem with the interpretation of result from validate.cph in the Design package. My purpose is to fit a cox model and validate the Somer's Dxy. I used the hypothetical data given in the help manual with modification to the cox model fit. My research problem is very similar to this example. This is the model without stratification: > library(Design) > f1

I have two alternative Cox models with C-statistics 0.72 and 0.78. My question is if 0.78 is significantly greater than 0.72. I'm using rcorrp.cens. I cannot find the U statistics in the output of the function. This is the output of the help example: > x1 <- rnorm(400) > x2 <- x1 + rnorm(400) > d.time <- rexp(400) + (x1 - min(x1)) > cens <- runif(400,.5,2) > death

Hello R Community, I'm continuing to work through logistic regression (thanks for all the help on score test) and have come up against a new opposition. I'm trying to compute Somers Dyx as some suggest this is the preferred method to Somers Dxy (Demaris, 1992). I have searchered the [R] archieves to no avail for a function or code to compute Dyx (not Dxy). The overview of Hmisc has

lrm does some binning to make the calculations faster. The exact calculation is obtained by running f <- lrm(...) rcorr.cens(predict(f), DA), which results in: C Index Dxy S.D. n missing 0.96814404 0.93628809 0.03808336 32.00000000 0.00000000 uncensored Relevant Pairs Concordant Uncertain 32.00000000

I know how to compute the ROC curve and the empirical AUC from the logistic regression after fitting the model. But here is my question, how can I compute the standard error for the AUC estimator resulting form logistic regression? The variance should be more complicated than AUC based on known test results. Does anybody know a reference on this problem? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R-listers, I am an MD and clinical epidemiologist developing a measure of comorbidity severity for patients with liver disease. Having developed my comorbidity score as the linear predictor from a Cox regression model I want to compare the discriminative ability of my comorbidity measure with the "old" comorbidity measure, Charlson's Comorbidity Index. I have nearly 10,000

I am reposting my message from April 8th because I never received a response to the original post: Dear R-listers, I am an MD and clinical epidemiologist developing a measure of comorbidity severity for patients with liver disease. Having developed my comorbidity score as the linear predictor from a Cox regression model I want to compare the discriminative ability of my comorbidity measure with

Dear R-helpers: I want to calculate area under a Receiver Operator Characteristic curve. Where can I find related functions? Thank you in advance Xiao

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Hi everyone, I am doing 5 years mortality predictive index score with survival analysis using a Cox proportional hazard model where I have a continous predictive variable and a right censored response which is the mortality, and the individuals were followed a maximum of 7 years. I'd like to asses the discrimination ability of survival analysis Cox model by computing a ROC curve and area

Hello, I'm a biostatistician in Toronto. I would like to know if there is anything in survival analysis developed in R for the method "Evaluating the Yield of Medical Test" (JAMA. May 14,1982--Vol 247, No.18 Frank E. Harrell, Jr,PhD; Robert M. Califf, MD; David B. Pryor, MD;Kerry L.Lee, PhD; Robert A. Rosait,MD.) Hope to hear from you and thanks Lisa Wang, MSc Project Organiser

Hello and Thanks in Advance, I've been at this for three days now and can't think of anything else to try. Been through the docs and #samba on openprojects and even begged for direction in #samba-technical who suggested writing here. On the ancient RedHat 5.2 server (SAMBA 1.9?) both boxes work OK and continue to work OK with both servers now up (new one is from Mandrake 8.2 - SAMBA

Dear R-philes, I am plotting ROC curves for several cross-validation runs of a classifier (using the function below). In addition to the average AUC, I am interested in obtaining a confidence interval for the average AUC. Is there a straightforward way to do this via the ROCR package? plot_roc_curve <- function(roc.dat, plt.title) { #print(str(vowel.ROC)) pred <-

I am doing some coxPH model fitting and would like to have some idea about how good the fits are. Someone suggested to use Frank Harrell's C-index measure. As I understand it, a C-index > 0.5 indicates a useful model. I am probably making an error here because I am getting values less than 0.5 on real datasets. Can someone tell me where I am going wrong please ? Here is an example using