Re: [R] Forced inclusion of varaibles in validate command as well as step

2012-07-20 Thread D. Lofaro
Dear prof. Harrell, I'm not able to use the force option with fastbw, here an example of the error I've got (dataset stagec rpart package): > fitstc <- cph(Surv(stagec$pgtime,stagec$pgstat) ~ age + eet + g2 + grade + > gleason + ploidy, data=stagec) > fbwstc <- fastbw(fitstc,rule="aic",type="in

Re: [R] Forced inclusion of varaibles in validate command as well as step

2011-02-26 Thread Frank Harrell
Jon, Version 3.3-0 of rms will be released within 2-3 days. It has a new option "force" for fastbw, validate, calibrate. force is an integer vector of the parameter numbers to force into every model. It is meant to work with type='individual' and its performance with type='residual' needs to be

[R] Forced inclusion of varaibles in validate command as well as step

2011-02-25 Thread Jon Kroll Bjerregaard
Hello all I am a very new R user I am used to using STATA My problem: I want to build a Cox model and validate this. I have a large number of clinical relevant factors and feel the need to reduce these. Meanwhile I have some clinical variables I deem sufficiently important to fo