[R] offset in coxph

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Removed?  That it was ever there is not my recollection and seems very 
unlikely given that survival is ported from S where glm() does not have 
it,

As far as I know it has only ever been in glm() and lm() in R: the way 
which is described in the White Book is to use the offset() function, and 
this is preferred (it works correctly for prediction, for example).  The 
function form is supported for coxph, and used in the test suite.

Please forget you ever knew 'offset' could be an argument, and use 
offset() in your formulae instead.


On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Michael Gormley wrote:

> The offset argument used in glm and other functions seems to have been
> removed from the argument list for coxph.  I am wondering if there is a
> reason for this and if there is a possible work-around in order to produce a
> cox-ph object without fitting coefficients?

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