Thx for the answer.

I am using survival.

I didn't know that the Wald and score tests were the same for individual 
variables in a coxph; I Thought the score test was the "multivariate version" of 
the Log-rank.

However, say I have only one variable in the model, I should expect the test for 
the full model and the one for a single variable to be the same? Then it seems 
to me that the default test is the Wald and that the Wald and the Score are 
different.

> cox_lr_age <- coxph(Surv(tilr, ev_lr==1)~age, data=tam)
> summary(cox_lr_age)
Call:
coxph(formula = Surv(tilr, ev_lr == 1) ~ age, data = tam)

  n=2156 (76 observations deleted due to missingness)

        coef exp(coef) se(coef)     z Pr(>|z|)    
age 0.019504  1.019696 0.004651 4.193 2.75e-05 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 

    exp(coef) exp(-coef) lower .95 upper .95
age     1.020     0.9807     1.010     1.029

Rsquare= 0.008   (max possible= 0.669 )
Likelihood ratio test= 18.4  on 1 df,   p=1.787e-05
Wald test            = 17.58  on 1 df,   p=2.751e-05
Score (logrank) test = 17.86  on 1 df,   p=2.375e-05


 David Biau.




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De : David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>

Cc : r help list <r-help@r-project.org>
Envoyé le : Ven 30 juillet 2010, 17h 34min 28s
Objet : Re: [R] COXPH: how to get the score test and likelihood ratio test for a 
specific variable in a multivariate Coxph ?


On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Biau David wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to get the likelihood ratio and score tests for specific 
variables
> in a multivariate coxph model. The default is Wald, so the tests for each
> separate variable is based on Wald's test. I have the other tests for the full
> model but I don't know how to get them for each variable.
> 
> Any idea?
> 

The first idea would be to specify which function in which package you are
asking questions about. In the case of coxph in the survival package, for 
instance, you do get a likelihood ratio test (== differences in log-likelihoods) 
by default. A score test is, at least as as I understand it for individual
variables, equivalent to a Wald test, so I don't really understand your 
question, since youa re already getting all of that in the survival package.

(You can extract a "score" value and loglik values from a coxph object by:
(with the first example in the coxph help page)

coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ x + strata(sex), test1)$score
xoxph(Surv(time, status) ~ x + strata(sex), test1)$loglik

But anova(coxph-object) would give you these values in a neater bundle.
#Analysis of Deviance Table
# Cox model: response is Surv(time, status)
#Terms added sequentially (first to last)
#      loglik  Chisq Df Pr(>|Chi|)
# NULL -3.8712
# x    -3.3277 1.0871  1     0.2971

The question about "getting them for each variable" does not make a lot of sense 
to me, since likelihood tests are model comparisons. You can only make such
statements about the consequences of adding or deleting a variable to/from an 
existing model.

--David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT


      
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