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Re: st: RE: r2 in -streg-/-stcox-
Thank you very much for the clarification, Maarten.
Nishant
--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Nishant Dass <[email protected]> wrote:
> > why does the data of Hosmer and Lemeshow (that you use
> in your
> > note as well) mainly consist of categorical covariates
> and
> > not continuous variables? Do continuous variables not
> lend
> > easily to survival analysis?
>
> Nishant:
> There is no problem with using continuous variables in
> survival
> analysis other than the assumption that the effect on log
> hazard or log
> time (depending on your model) is linear. This is of
> course no
> different from any other model that allows continuous
> variables.
>
> The only exception is if you want to compare the Kaplan
> Meier survival
> curves of different groups. In that case you will have to
> use a
> categorical variable. This is why in my example on Kaplan
> Meier
> estimates I use the distinction between poor and rich
> countries, and
> GDP per capita (a continuous variable) for -streg- and
> -stcox- models.
> HTH,
> Maarten
>
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