[R] Repeated measures Cox regression ??coxph??

[Marc Schwartz]

On Jul 25, 2013, at 2:11 PM, John Sorkin <jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:

> Colleagues,
> Is there any R package that will allow one to perform a repeated measures Cox Proportional Hazards regression? I don't think coxph is set up to handle this type of problem, but I would be happy to know that I am not correct.
> I am doing a study of time to hip joint replacement. As each person has two hips, a given person can appear in the dataset twice, once for the left hip and once for the right hip, and I need to account for the correlation of data from a single individual.
> Thank you,
> John



John,

See Terry's 'coxme' package:

  http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/coxme/index.html


You also might find the following of interest:

  http://bjo.bmj.com/content/71/9/645.full.pdf

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22226885

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22078901



Regards,

Marc Schwartz