[R] documentation for survival5?

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

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

> 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,
> 
> Ramón
>

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
 
> On Wednesday 23 April 2003 15:03, John Fox wrote:
> > 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:
> > >           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.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------
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