[Rd] coxph and drop1

[John Fox]

Dear Terry,

Possibly I'm missing something, but since the generic drop1() doesn't have a test argument, why is there a problem?

> args(drop1)
function (object, scope, ...) 

If you use match.arg() against test, then the error message should be informative if one of the prescribed values isn't supplied.

Best,
 John

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John Fox
Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:42:04 -0500
 Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu> wrote:
> A recent question in r-help made me realize that I should add a drop1 method 
> for coxph and survreg.  The default does not handle strata() or cluster()
> properly.  
>   However, for coxph the right options for the "test" argument would be 
> likelihood-ratio, score, and Wald; not chisq and F.  All of them reference
> a chi-square distribution.  My thought is use these arguments, and add an
> error message "read the help file for drop1.coxph" when the defaults appear.
> 
>   Any better suggestions?
> 
> Terry Therneau
> 
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