survFit: Survival Curves for a Cox Proportional Hazards Model

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Survival Curves for a Cox Proportional Hazards Model

Description

Computes the predicted survivor function for a Cox proportional hazards model.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mboost'
survFit(object, newdata = NULL, ...)
## S3 method for class 'survFit'
plot(x, xlab = "Time", ylab = "Probability", ...)

Arguments

object	an object of class mboost which is assumed to have a CoxPH family component.
newdata	an optional data frame in which to look for variables with which to predict the survivor function.
x	an object of class survFit for plotting.
xlab	the label of the x axis.
ylab	the label of the y axis.
...	additional arguments passed to callies.

Details

If newdata = NULL, the survivor function of the Cox proportional hazards model is computed for the mean of the covariates used in the blackboost, gamboost, or glmboost call. The Breslow estimator is used for computing the baseline survivor function. If newdata is a data frame, the predict method of object, along with the Breslow estimator, is used for computing the predicted survivor function for each row in newdata.

Value

An object of class survFit containing the following components:

surv	the estimated survival probabilities at the time points given in time.
time	the time points at which the survivor functions are evaluated.
n.event	the number of events observed at each time point given in time.

See Also

gamboost, glmboost and blackboost for model fitting.

Examples

library("survival")
data("cancer", package = "survival")


fm <- Surv(futime,fustat) ~ age + resid.ds + rx + ecog.ps
fit <- glmboost(fm, data = ovarian, family = CoxPH(),
    control=boost_control(mstop = 500))

S1 <- survFit(fit)
S1
newdata <- ovarian[c(1,3,12),]
S2 <- survFit(fit, newdata = newdata)
S2

plot(S1)

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