Re: [R] Standard Error for individual patient survival with survfit and summary.survfit

2010-07-16 Thread Terry Therneau
> Can anyone tell me what is the difference between these two standard > errors and how should I interpret the confidence intervals and std.err > given these differences? help(survfit.object) will give you the answer. The std in the object is for the cumulative hazard, the printout uses a Taylor

[R] Standard Error for individual patient survival with survfit and summary.survfit

2010-07-15 Thread Charles M. Rowland
I am using the coxph, survfit and summary.survfit functions to calculate an estimate of predicted survival with confidence interval for future patients based on the survival distribution of an existing cohort of subjects. I am trying to understand the calculation and interpretation of the std.