[R] anova() method for coxph objects with robust standard errors

2009-11-24 Thread Terry Therneau
> what is the reason why the anova() method for coxph objects does not work when robust standard errors have been requested, e.g., A robust variance estimate is normally used in situations where the model may be mis-specified, e.g., multiple events per subject. In this case a comparison of partia

[R] anova() method for coxph objects with robust standard errors

2009-11-23 Thread Mura Tamakou
Hi all, what is the reason why the anova() method for coxph objects does not work when robust standard errors have been requested, e.g., fit <- coxph(Surv(futime, fustat) ~ resid.ds *rx + ecog.ps, data = ovarian, robust = T) anova(fit) any pointers will be much appreciated. Sincerely, Mura