[R] predicting expected number of events using a coxph model

[peter dalgaard]

On Jun 29, 2012, at 23:56 , agittens wrote:

> I fit a coxph model:
> 
> coxphfit <- coxph(Surv(sampledLifetime, !sampledCensoredQ) ~  curpbc6  +
> prevpbc6,  sampledTimeSeries)
> 
> Now I'm trying to predict the expected number of events using a new dataset.
> The documentation suggests that
> 
> coxPred <- predict(coxphfit, newdata = testTimeSeries, type="expected")
> 
> will do what I want, but I get the error
> 
> Error in model.frame.default(data = testTimeSeries, formula =
> Surv(sampledLifetime,  : 
>  variable lengths differ (found for 'curpbc6')
> 
> when I do this. The dataframes sampledTimeSeries and testTimeSeries were
> constructed by taking rows from a larger dataframe, so they have the same
> data.
> 
> What am I doing incorrectly?

Most likely referring to a variable not in testTimeSeries. (I kind of suspect that unlike predict.lm, predict.coxph does not ignore the left hand side of formulas. Does testTimeSeries contain a sampledLifetime column?)

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