Skip to content
Prev 138363 / 398506 Next

Problem plotting curve on survival curve

Terry Therneau wrote:
Many thanks - that worked at treat... (One day I might work out what it 
does - for now I'm happy it does it!) In terms of when I write up what I 
did is this still a weibull regression?  help(predict.survreg) just 
calls it a quantile...  (Sorry that may be dumb question ;-) )
Any thoughts on which is scientifically more valid?  I'd have thoughts 4 
separate shapes?  Certainly if I'm modeling drugs - its surely possible 
that a new drug might change the course of disease and therefore the 
shape of the curve altogether?

Brings me back to my extra question - is there any way to determine 
quality of the fit for this (like an R^2 value for a linear regression). 
  That might answer if a strata approach is needed.