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Survival model selection

1 message · Diego Salazar

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Hi all,

I am trying to fit a survival analysis to determine effect of two 
factors on survival, factors have 3 and 5 levels respectively. N is 1050 
and experiment is balanced. I have used "survival" package for analyses.

I have problems in select the best survival model for my data, I fit 
several parametric models (weibull, expontential, gaussian, lognormal, 
loglogistic, logistic) and a Cox model. Model selection was made by AICc 
being Cox model the best option by this criteria, but I am not sure that 
AIC is valid to compare parametric and non-parametric survival models. 
Moreover, my data violates the proportional hazards assumption of Cox 
models.

For all of this, I don't know what model select.

Thanks in advanced

Diego Salazar