R: Survival Curves for a Cox Proportional Hazards Model

survFit {mboost} | R Documentation

## Survival Curves for a Cox Proportional Hazards Model

### Description

Computes the predicted survivor function for a Cox proportional hazards model.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'mboost'
    survFit(object, newdata = NULL, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'survFit'
    plot(x, xlab = "Time", ylab = "Probability", ...)

### Arguments

`object` | an object of class `mboost` which is assumed to have a `CoxPH` family component.
`newdata` | an optional data frame in which to look for variables with which to predict the survivor function.
`x` | an object of class `survFit` for plotting.
`xlab` | the label of the x axis.
`ylab` | the label of the y axis.
`...` | additional arguments passed to callies.

### Details

If `newdata = NULL`, the survivor function of the Cox proportional hazards model is computed for the mean of the covariates used in the `blackboost`, `gamboost`, or `glmboost` call. The Breslow estimator is used for computing the baseline survivor function. If `newdata` is a data frame, the `predict` method of `object`, along with the Breslow estimator, is used for computing the predicted survivor function for each row in `newdata`.

### Value

An object of class `survFit` containing the following components:

`surv` | the estimated survival probabilities at the time points given in `time`.
`time` | the time points at which the survivor functions are evaluated.
`n.event` | the number of events observed at each time point given in `time`.

### See Also

`gamboost`, `glmboost` and `blackboost` for model fitting.

### Examples

    library("survival")
    data("ovarian", package = "survival")

    fm <- Surv(futime,fustat) ~ age + resid.ds + rx + ecog.ps
    fit <- glmboost(fm, data = ovarian, family = CoxPH(),
        control=boost_control(mstop = 500))

    S1 <- survFit(fit)
    S1
    newdata <- ovarian[c(1,3,12),]
    S2 <- survFit(fit, newdata = newdata)
    S2

    plot(S1)

[Package mboost version 2.9-2 Index]