[R] Error in using coxph()

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> Note you said you used 1-F but the output said you used F. You also say
> `1-F is a vector of '0's' so I think you may have declared that all
> observations are right-censored.  (NB if you give Surv an event vector of
> all 1's it is ambiguous, so don't do this.)

Actually, it *is* documented that this is interpreted as "all-died"
and the advice in ?Surv is just to avoid 1/2 coding if all data are
censored. It's a bit puzzling that we don't allow explicit
disambiguation (e.g., by passing the event as a two-level factor),
though.

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