Thanks a lot, Prof Lumley.

Now I can fit a model like

coxfit=coxpy((time,censor)~pspline(x1)+x2+x3)

but I am not sure how to extract the estimated function for x1 alone. I
tried to use predict function but couldn't find appropriate option to do
this.

if i only have one covariates, then the example in help manule can be used
as
plot(x1, predict(coxfit))

but with more than 1 predictor, i am not sure how to select the one i want.


On 2/19/08, Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, gallon li wrote:
>
> > i am trying to fit a survival regression model (cox model or parametric
> > model) in R by including the covariate effects as a function m(x)
> instead of
> > just beta*x. is it possible to fit such a model? can someone recommend
> some
> > reference? I searched but only found a package called addreg where
> > the hazard is actually modeled additively. That is not what i want.
>
> The survival package has pspline() for this purpose (assuming that by
> 'non-parametric' you mean a flexible smooth curve)
>
>        -thomas
>
> Thomas Lumley                   Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
> tlumley@u.washington.edu        University of Washington, Seattle
>

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