Re: [R] error in survival analysis

2011-07-26 Thread Rasika Gawde
r the help so far guys. I guess it shows that I am completely out of my depth here. Rasika -Original Message- From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:01 AM To: Rasika Gawde Cc: r-help@r-project.org R; Terry Therneau Subject: Re: [R] err

Re: [R] error in survival analysis

2011-07-26 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Terry Therneau wrote: There is something very odd about your data to give se values that are so very large. Usually, this means that the data is deterministic: some combination of predictors is able to separate a subset with no events from all the others. This

Re: [R] error in survival analysis

2011-07-26 Thread Terry Therneau
There is something very odd about your data to give se values that are so very large. Usually, this means that the data is deterministic: some combination of predictors is able to separate a subset with no events from all the others. This leads to a problem where the log-likelihood is maximum at

[R] error in survival analysis

2011-07-25 Thread Rasika Gawde
This is a simple R program that I have been trying to run. I keep running into the "singular matrix" error. I end up with no sensible results. Can anyone suggest any changes or a way around this? I am a total rookie when working with R. Thanks, Rasika > library(survival) Loading required packa