Re: [R] Modelling survival with time-dependent covariates

2010-07-02 Thread Terry Therneau
1-Would informing the algorithm coxph which samples represents the same person (through the use of an Id for example) improve the ?efficiency? of the estimated model? And if so, how should i do that? Using strata()? No, it makes no change. The reason is that the (start, stop] is just a trick. A

[R] Modelling survival with time-dependent covariates

2010-07-01 Thread Ben Rhelp
Hi all, I am looking at the tutorial/appendix from John Fox on “Cox Proportional-Hazards Regression for Survival Data” available here: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Fox-Companion/appendix-cox-regression.pdf I am particularly interested in modelling survival with time-dependent covariates