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5 messages · Spencer Graves, John Fox, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte +2 more

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Dear R-Helpers:

	  What other references are there on the capabilities of the survival5 
package other than the help files and the chapter on survival analysis 
in every edition of Modern Applied Statistics with S?  I'm thinking of 
something like "An Introduction to Survival Analysis in R" with worked 
examples that might complement or extend the chapter in MASS.

Thanks,
Spencer Graves
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Dear Spencer,

There is a book by Therneau and Grambsch, Modeling Survival Data (Springer, 
2000); Therneau is the author of the survival library for S-PLUS, ported to 
R. The book covers survival analysis in S-PLUS and SAS.

Regards,
  John
At 05:05 AM 4/23/2003 -0700, Spencer Graves wrote:

            
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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
email: jfox at mcmaster.ca
phone: 905-525-9140x23604
web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox
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Dear Spencer,

On addition to John's suggestion, you might want to check Frank Harrell's 
"Regression modeling strategies" (Springer, 2001) which devotes several 
chapters to survival analysis. It includes discussion of both survival5 and 
Harrell's additions (in the Hmisc and Design packages).

Best,

Ram?n
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 15:03, John Fox wrote:

  
    
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:27:21 +0200
Ramon Diaz <rdiaz at cnio.es> wrote:

            
Thanks for the note Ramon.  The Therneau and Grambsch book goes into much more detail about survival analysis, especially time-dependent covariables, random effects, and multiple events.  -Frank
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Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Spencer Graves wrote:

            
THere's a book by Therneau and Grambsch called something like "survival
analysis: extending the Cox model".

By December there may be some R vignettes, since I'm teaching survival
analysis in autumn quarter this year.

	-thomas