Re: [R] survfit plot question

2013-03-05 Thread Terry Therneau
On 03/05/2013 05:00 AM, r-help-requ...@r-project.org wrote: Hello, I create a plot from a coxph object called fit.ads4: plot(survfit(fit.ads4)) Questions: 1. What is the cross mark in the plot ? 2. How does the cross mark in the plot relate to either the "rmean" or the "median" from survfit ?

Re: [R] survfit plot question

2013-03-05 Thread Andrews, Chris
1. A censored observation 2. It does not relate to either 3. See ?print.survfit . Recall also that the mean of a positive random variable is the integral from 0 to infinity of the survival function. The truncated mean is the integral from 0 to tau (819 in your case) of the survival function.