Re: [R] Survival Analysis and Predict time-to-death

2015-08-17 Thread survivalUser
Thank you David for your answer. Some follow-up questions: - So, do you think that try to estimate the life expectancy would be risky and probably not justifiable? Is there some sort of 'confidence' that the model could give me for a prediction? - type=response - I found it here: https://stat.e

[R] Survival Analysis and Predict time-to-death

2015-08-17 Thread survivalUser
Dear All, I would like to build a model, based on survival analysis on some data, that is able to predict the /*expected time until death*/ for a new data instance. Data For each individual in the population I have the, for each unit of time, the status information and several continuous covariat