Separate 2 groups in Cox regression
Instalation
Required Packages
library(futile.logger)
library(ggplot2)
library(glmSparseNet)
library(survival)
# Some general options for futile.logger the debugging package
flog.layout(layout.format("[~l] ~m"))
options("glmSparseNet.show_message" = FALSE)
# Setting ggplot2 default theme as minimal
theme_set(ggplot2::theme_minimal())Prepare data
Separate using age as co-variate
(group cutoff is median calculated relative risk)
Kaplan-Meier survival results
## Call: survfit(formula = survival::Surv(time, status) ~ group, data = prognosticIndexDf)
##
## n events median 0.95LCL 0.95UCL
## Low risk - 1 13 4 NA 638 NA
## High risk - 1 13 8 464 268 NAPlot
A individual is attributed to low-risk group if its calculated relative risk (using Cox Proportional model) is below or equal the median risk.
The opposite for the high-risk groups, populated with individuals above the median relative-risk.
Separate using age as co-variate (group cutoff is 40% - 60%)
Kaplan-Meier survival results
## Call: survfit(formula = survival::Surv(time, status) ~ group, data = prognosticIndexDf)
##
## n events median 0.95LCL 0.95UCL
## Low risk - 1 11 3 NA 563 NA
## High risk - 1 10 7 359 156 NAPlot
A individual is attributed to low-risk group if its calculated relative risk (using Cox Proportional model) is below the median risk.
The opposite for the high-risk groups, populated with individuals above the median relative-risk.
Separate using age as co-variate (group cutoff is 60% - 40%)
This is a special case where you want to use a cutoff that includes some sample on both high and low risks groups.
resAge6040 <- separate2GroupsCox(
chosenBetas = c(age = 1, 0),
xdata,
ydata,
probs = c(.6, .4),
stopWhenOverlap = FALSE
)## Warning in buildPrognosticIndexDataFrame(ydata, probs, stopWhenOverlap, : The cutoff values given to the function allow for some over samples in both groups, with:
## high risk size (15) + low risk size (16) not equal to xdata/ydata rows (31 != 26)
##
## We are continuing with execution as parameter `stopWhenOverlap` is FALSE.
## note: This adds duplicate samples to ydata and xdata xdataKaplan-Meier survival results
## Kaplan-Meier results## Call: survfit(formula = survival::Surv(time, status) ~ group, data = prognosticIndexDf)
##
## n events median 0.95LCL 0.95UCL
## Low risk - 1 16 5 NA 638 NA
## High risk - 1 15 9 475 353 NAPlot
A individual is attributed to low-risk group if its calculated relative risk (using Cox Proportional model) is below the median risk.
The opposite for the high-risk groups, populated with individuals above the median relative-risk.
Session Info
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