It is not OK. Post to a statistical list, like stats.stackexchange.com , instead.
-- Bert On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Troels Ring <tr...@gvdnet.dk> wrote: > Dear friends - I hope it is OK to ask a question on the principles of > survival analysis. I'm a medical person in this project, but wonders about > the statistical methods proposed. We have a huge dataset and assumption of > proportional hazard is said to be fulfilled if survival time is fractionated > into short, intermediate and long time survival. I wonder if it should not > be better to have a more generalized method encompassing the entirety of the > observation period. > > Best wishes > > Troels Ring, MD > Department of nephrology > Aalborg, Denmark > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.