[R] Cox model

[Matthias Gondan]

Hi Eleni,

The problem of this approach is easily explained: Under the Null 
hypothesis, the P values
of a significance test are random variables, uniformly distributed in 
the interval [0, 1]. It
is easily seen that the lowest of these P values is not any 'better' 
than the highest of the
P values.

Best wishes,

Matthias

Eleni Christodoulou schrieb:
> Hmm...I see. I think I will give a try to the univariate analysis
> nonetheless...I intend to catch the p-values for each gene and select the
> most significant from these...I have seen it in several papers.
>
> Best Regards,
> Eleni
>
> On Feb 13, 2008 2:59 PM, Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>>  What you appear to want are all of the univariate models.  You can get
>> this
>> with a loop (and patience - it won't be fast).
>>
>> ngene <- ncol(genes)
>> coefmat <- matrix(0., nrow=ngene, ncol=2)
>> for (i in 1:ngene) {
>>        tempfit <- coxph(Surv(time, relapse) ~ genes[,i])
>>        coefmat[i,] <- c(tempfit$coef, sqrt(tempfit$var))
>>        }
>>
>>
>>  However, the fact that R can do this for you does not mean it is a good
>> idea.
>> In fact, doing all of the univariate tests for a microarray has been shown
>> by
>> many people to be a very bad idea.  There are several approaches to deal
>> with
>> the key issues, which you should research before going forward.
>>
>>  Terry Therneau
>>
>>
>>     
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