Hi there,

Can anyone please help me because I am going to get crazy with the pbc data 
set. I just want to apply simple cox regression in the data set. I am a 
beginner in R but I don't think I am doing anything wrong. 

I have the book of Fleming and Harrington 1990. I perform cox regression by 
typing:

out<- coxph(Surv(times/365,status)~log(bili)+log(proth)+edema+log(albumin)+age)
out


Call:
coxph(formula = Surv(times/365, status) ~ log(bili) + log(proth) + 
    edema + log(albumin) + age)


                coef exp(coef) se(coef)     z       p
log(bili)     0.8636    2.3716  0.08294 10.41 0.0e+00
log(proth)    2.3868   10.8791  0.76851  3.11 1.9e-03
edema         0.8963    2.4505  0.27141  3.30 9.6e-04
log(albumin) -2.5069    0.0815  0.65292 -3.84 1.2e-04
age           0.0396    1.0404  0.00767  5.16 2.4e-07

Likelihood ratio test=231  on 5 df, p=0  n=416 (2 observations deleted due to 
missingness)

Which is not exactly what fleming presents in table 4.6.3 page 195. Edema coef 
is 0.8592.

I searched the net (please google: modern regression methods for survival data 
stockholm)

and there some slides there. The results of the slides are again slightly 
different and the analysis seems to be in R. So we all disagree. (I notice that 
2 observation are excluded in my analysis, but not in the slides' analysis)

Also I check the age column, in the book the first two elemets are, 58.7652 and 
56.4463 while in R 58.80548 56.48493. Age looks totally different.

Can anyone please help me. Also in the article "Survival model predictive 
accuracy and ROC curves" , which is free just google it, in page 27 the results 
seem to be different again. (caution with log(alb) or alb).

Does anyone has any information about this data set that clarifies things for 
me??


Leo.





      
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