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Developing Risk Scores from Cox Regression model?

A simple question on the development of risk prediction models from Cox regressions. Suppose, as an example, that I want to create a risk score for 1-year mortality in patients with cardiovascular ...
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Comparing non-nested Cox models: AIC & Partial likelihood test?

I'm doing survival Cox PH analyses and want to understand how an important continuous variable impacts time-to-event (model1). This important variable is frequently ...
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Cox regression assessing joint relationship between baseline groups? JAMA example

I'm a new R user trying to better understand the analytical framework behind an important JAMA paper (doi:10.1001/jama.291.2.210) and how it can be coded in R. It's objective was to evaluate if, in ...
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Cox proportional hazards with left-censored time-dependent covariates

I'm doing statistical analysis on a cancer study. My specific dataset contains id, various co-variates such as age, sex, metastatic burden, etc. and time to event data for overall survival I want to ...
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Should I use Cox model?

In a study of crowdfunding, I am investigating the relationship between the reputation of a person seeking funding for a project (a continuous variable) and the proportion of funding target received (...
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Cox Regression and Linkage Disequilibrium

I'm trying to figure out the best way to account for linkage disequilibrium in a cox regression, and would really appreciate your advice. I'm testing the effect of a particular allele on overall ...
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How does Cox regression estimate time to an event?

In R and Python, Cox regression is specified with duration and event as the dependent variables. However, Cox regression is said ...
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What could be the reasons for why re-scaling variables used in regression helps model performance?

There's already an excellent post on standardizing values used for regression here. In this post, I am using Cox Regression (Cox Proportional Hazard model) with the lifelines Python library. Now, one ...
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Determine where hazards starts to increase for a continuous variable

I'm interested in a continuous variable, namely blood pressure. The higher the blood pressure, the greater the risk of heart attack and stroke. However, studies frequently report that also low blood ...
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Cox regression to see if distribution of disease predicts survival

I'm working with clinical data from a few hundred patients. Every patient was measured at 6 different timepoints with regular intervals. Each patient is assessed on 3 different domains and given a ...
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