Re: [R] question about val.surv in R

2011-05-08 Thread Frank Harrell
Please specify the package(s) you are using. In this case it should be rms. val.surv is mainly for an out-of-sample validation, as it does not penalize for overfitting. calibrate.cph is probably what you should be using. To use val.surv in the fashion you are trying to use it, specify y=TRUE, s

[R] question about val.surv in R

2011-05-08 Thread zhu yao
Dear R users: I tried to use val.surv to give an internal validation of survival prediction model. I used the sample sources. # Generate failure times from an exponential distribution set.seed(123) # so can reproduce results n <- 1000 age <- 50 + 12*rnorm(n) sex <- factor(sample(c('