[R] exact method in coxph

2008-01-16 Thread Julian Wucherpfennig
I'm trying to estimate a cox proportional hazards regression for repeated events (in gap time) with time varying covariates. The dataset consists of just around 6000 observations (lines) (110 events). The (stylized) data look as follows: unit dur0 dur1 eventn event ongoing x 1 01

Re: [R] exact method in coxph

2008-01-17 Thread Terry Therneau
> The help says that the exact method is computationally demanding, but even > after days the computing it won't finish. Also, if I include a frailty-term, > the exact method gives me results in no time. Is my setup incorrect? Assume that at some particular time point there are k deaths and n su