Dear professor,
I am currently using Design package and the cph formula for assessing multivariable analysis. I am tryng to get the C-index for my survival model based on Dxy coefficient. I am confused since there is a negative value. Do I need to used the absolute Dxy ? index.orig training test optimism index.corrected n Dxy -0.341357727 -0.344002740 -0.341357727 -0.002645013 -0.338712715 40 R2 0.084694141 0.095440176 0.079077594 0.016362582 0.068331560 40 Slope 1.000000000 1.000000000 0.897999711 0.102000289 0.897999711 40 D 0.033368588 0.038458457 0.030983429 0.007475027 0.025893561 40 U -0.002890981 -0.002968495 0.003412045 -0.006380539 0.003489558 40 Q 0.036259569 0.041426951 0.027571385 0.013855566 0.022404003 40 Many thanks Dr MAZOUNI Institut Gustave Roussy Department of breast surgical oncology Villejuif, France [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.