On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Johannes Huesing wrote:
Hi all,
I can't come over a problem with formula. Suppose I have a coxmod model
with the following formula:
somemod$formula
Surv(lebzeit, tot == 1) ~ sex + (alter >= 65) + diff3k + zelltyp_k_c +
q_nuc_3k + kar_k80_g80 + stadium
You need to give us something to reproduce. I get an error when I try
example(coxph)
test1$quant <- rnorm(length(test1$sex))
fit <- coxph( Surv(time, status) ~ x + (quant>0) + strata(sex), test1)
Error in model.matrix.default(newTerms, m) :
model frame and formula mismatch in model.matrix()
so I do not see how you obtained 'somemod'.
When I protect with I(quant>0), I have no problems obtaining 'fit' nor
update()ing it:
fit <- coxph( Surv(time, status) ~ x + I(quant>0) + strata(sex), test1)
update(fit,".~.-x")
Call:
coxph(formula = Surv(time, status) ~ I(quant > 0) + strata(sex),
data = test1)
coef exp(coef) se(coef) z p
I(quant > 0)TRUE -0.746 0.474 1.27 -0.589 0.56
Likelihood ratio test=0.37 on 1 df, p=0.545 n=6 (1 observation deleted
due to missingness)
HTH,
Chuck
and I want to drop the stadium explanatory variable from the model with
update(somemod, ". ~ . - stadium")
I get the following messages:
Fehler in coxph(formula = Surv(lebzeit, tot == 1) ~ sex + alter >= 65 + :
No (non-missing) observations
Zusätzlich: Warning messages:
1: In Ops.factor(sex, alter) : + not meaningful for factors
2: In Ops.factor(65, diff3k) : + not meaningful for factors
3: In Ops.factor(65 + diff3k, zelltyp_k_c) : + not meaningful for factors
4: In Ops.factor(65 + diff3k + zelltyp_k_c, q_nuc_3k) :
+ not meaningful for factors
5: In Ops.factor(65 + diff3k + zelltyp_k_c + q_nuc_3k, kar_k80_g80) :
+ not meaningful for factors
What seems to happen is that "alter >= 65" is not parsed as an entity.
It does not look as a problem with the environment to me, as is outlined
in http://developer.r-project.org/nonstandard-eval.pdf, rather a parsing
problem.
By contrast, the following works like a charm:
x <- runif(50)
y <- rnorm(50)+x
regmod <- lm(y ~ x)
update(regmod, " . ~ . + (ifelse(x>.5, 0, x))")
Could anybody give me a hint on my wrongdoings?
--
Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science.
One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture
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