Questions tagged [logrank-test]
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Why use a stratified log-rank test if we balance over strata anyway?
When comparing survival data over time, we can use the log-rank test. An extension of this is the stratified log-rank test, which adjusts for variables.
Let's say we wanted to adjust for the effect of ...
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How do I get 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival with survival analysis in SPSS?
I have a database with patients and did survival analysis in SPSS. SPSS gave me the mean and median survivals with 95% confidence intervals. However, I also want the 1-,3-, and 5-year survival times ...
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Test for difference in hazard in two consecutive time periods
Let's say I have data on times-to-failure for a group of mechanical components in two consecutive years, Year 1 and Year 2. I would like to test the hypothesis that the hazard rate/survival behaviour ...
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Survival comparison among two different groups
I have two groups of patients, let’s say groups A and B, who have the same disease with a well-known genetic cause. My main goal is to see whether there is a difference in survivals by the type of ...
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Is logrank test and its variations affected by the inequality of classes?
I am currently dealing with an home made exercise which compares the lifetime of patients who made use of a specific drug or not. For simplicity, I decided to remove censored data, but as replacement ...
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How to use log-rank test for panel data?
Is it possible, and if yes how, to compute log-rank test to compare effects in (unbalanced) panel data, i.e. longitudinal study ? What are the possible problems which might arise ?
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Survival Analysis when Independent Variable Proportions Shift Heavily Over Time
I am attempting to conduct survival analysis on hiring processes with Kaplan-Meier, where the event is termination from the organization: testing a few independent variables known at an employee’s ...
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What is a dragon king?
I am studying a system of cities where the largest city appears to be in many aspects an outlier. The distribution of city size - in any country - are often claimed to follow Zipf's law.
According to ...
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Compare p-values of equal sample sizes: What does it mean if a p-value of kaplan-meier log rank test is larger than the other?
I'm analysing detection rates of carcasses for birds and mammals in either open fields or in forests, using kaplan-meier survival functions. The p-value is determined by log rank test.
I found that ...
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Which test should be used to compare crude mortality between 15 groups?
I have fifteen groups (factor levels) and I need to compare their crude mortality. Is Logrank test limited to two groups only? Which test would be correct to use in this case?
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The logrank test statistic is equivalent to the score of a Cox regression. Is there an advantage of using a logrank test over a Cox regression?
I have understood the logrank test as a "safe" or "conservative" way to check for a difference between two survival curves. It is "safe" in the sense that it is a ...
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Question on svylogrank() in survival package
I am running a survival model with sampling weights and was hoping to get the weighted logrank test results. When I use the svylogrank() function from the survey ...
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Difference between p-value in log rank test and cox proportional hazard?
For survival analysis I've used log rank test and the cox proportional hazard model, but I got different p-values with the same columns in this models.
I looked into the cox proportional model, but ...
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Difference in log-rank, tarone-ware, gehan-breslow, Peto-Peto etc
Everything is already in the title.
I study survival analisys
Could you tell me what is the difference among log-rank, tarone-ware, gehan-breslow, Peto-Peto etc.....
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Is it possible to compare survival curves from different models (Cox and Fine-Gray)? Ideally in R
I would like to perform a time to event analysis on some biological example with animals. The event of interest is a terminal event X. But the animal may die from other reason before it happens. So I ...
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Why is likelihood ratio test preferred Cox model for small sample sizes?
It looks like a common consensus that likelihood ratio (LR) test is preferred over log rank and Wald in Cox model when sample size is small. I did some research and couldn't find any clear answer
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Why are Logrank, Wald and likelihood ratio test asymptotically equivalent?
I am trying survival analysis and it seems like a common consensus that Logrank, Wald and likelihood ratio are asymptotically equivalent
I don't understand why they are asymptotically equivalent. As ...
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How to calculate log-rank test statistic
Depending on which statistics text you read you will get 2 different formulations of the log-rank test statistic. In some texts you will see it specified as:
$$
\frac{(O-E)^2}{E}
$$
Example 1
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How to properly do a Survival analysis - Question about start times
I have a monthly report that lists transactional errors made by facilities all over the country. Each row is a single error and the columns represent descriptive information about each error (ID, ...
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How can we analyze a dataset with a pseudoreplication problem?
I am trying to analyse a data set with a pseudoreplication problem and would be grateful if someone could give me some guidelines on the best way to deal with it.
We have a set of subjects exposed to ...
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How should I decide which test to use to look for differences in Kaplan-Meier curves?
I'm conducting a survival analysis for my dissertation and have run into a bit of a road block about which test to use to look for differences in Kaplan-Meier curves between treatments.
A previous ...
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R calculate log-rank p-value of survival curve at specific time [closed]
I am using survfit object from package survminer to draw a survival curve in ggplot. Now I am trying to understand how I can use ...
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Logrank p-value for >2 groups
I'm reviewing a paper that includes some survival plots for patients stratified to 3 groups (low, intermediate and high value of certain parameter), with p-value given for each plot. My understanding ...
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Cox Regression Model for toxicity
I'm trying to evaluate the toxicity of a certain treatment over time. I have 2 independent groups and I apply a treatment to one, and nothing to the second one. I thought about using logistic ...
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Survival Analysis: Significance in LogRank but not in Cox Regression
Currently, I am trying to extract the HR and 95% CI from a kaplan meier curve (used DigitizeIt plus the spreadsheet provided by Tierney et al)
[Tierney JF, Stewart LA, Ghersi D, Burdett S, Sydes MR....
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How to deal with different likelihood of censoring across groups in survival analysis?
I am analysing survival data for nematode worms fed on four different bacterial diets (four groups). Each group has at least 70 events (deaths), but there is often a very uneven proportion of ...
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sample size calculation for one-sample log rank test with interims (ie group sequential)
I wonder if there is any advice for performing a sample size calculation for survival data using the one-sample log rank test with interims (ie group sequential) - ie with O'Brien-Fleming or some ...
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Is Univariate comparison of 10 subjects using log rank test in Kaplan Meier survival is statistically sound?
I have 10 subjects and want to analyse the predictors of overall survival and progression free survival using log rank test .
Will conducting log rank test on such a small sample size will be ...
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A strange finding with the logrank test statistics
When I try to confirm the type I error rate of the logrank test by simulation, I found something strange...
Firstly, I generated 100 observations from exponential distribution with lamda1=1 as group 1 ...
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Can coxph be used for categorical data?
I'm doing some survival analysis and I got the idea to change a binary variable into three-category variable by sub-dividing one category of the binary variable into two new categories. Here's a ...
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Version of Mann-Whitney U test, for right-censored data
Is there an equivalent of the Mann-Whitney U test, but for right-censored data?
I have right-censored numerical data from two different groups. The mean for one group is higher than the other. I'd ...
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how can I focus the log rank test in a selected period of time of follow up?
I am using R survdiff (survival package).
I would like to focus the analysis on the first 2 years of my survival curve (that is actually much longer, but with few cases in the long term and with ...
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Uneven (right) censoring where the time of truncation is constant
I've collected data comparing the relative success of two different groups of participants on finding the answer to a difficult question. The problem is that not all the participants in the control ...
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Is there a reason chi square tests are used over normal tests in survival?
I've been reading and programming a bit about survival, and it seems that a lot of statistics are normally distributed (and thus, their square is chi square distributed). For example, the log rank ...
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Reproducing the cox model score test in R
I am using R and would like to recreate by hand the values of the tests.
For example,
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Survival analysis: log rank or ANOVA to compare groups?
If I want to know whether there is a significant difference in age of onset between the 2 groups, should I use ANOVA? My data meet the requirements of an ANOVA test. Or should I use the log rank test, ...
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One-Sample Log-rank test statistic
Ok, I am totally confused, this is probably a pure math rather than a statistic question but please enlighten me.
I found the logrank statistic formula being reported in the literature in 2 ways, but ...
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How can you have p < 0.0001 with a sample size of 89 and a control group of 52?
From Efficacy of monoterpene perillyl alcohol upon survival rate of patients with recurrent glioblastoma (linked from Does Frankincense cure cancer?):
Patients and methods
It was included 89 adults ...
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Survival probability for a case-control study
I have a case-control study in which 21 patients with a certain clinical outcome and 20 patients without that clinical outcome were (retrospectively) selected from a larger group of patients who were ...
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Very puzzling - naming the endpoint of survival analysis
A question that should be straightforward for statisticians but is puzzling me to the point I am nervous.
I am doing a PhD in Epidemiology and am going to use Cox regression. The predictor is a ...
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Relative Risk with Log-rank test
I always associated/used log-rank test to evaluate Hazard Ratios.
However, a well-known professor is using/presenting results of log-rank test for Relative Risk and Risk Ratio. Can anyone explain ...
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Matlab survival curve log rank test
I am trying to do survival analysis in matlab and want to calculate log rank test scores among several curves. I found a possible code to do log rank here. But based on its description, it can only do ...
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How to calculate the HR and 95%CI using the log-rank test in R?
The R survival package is very useful to do survival analysis. And I know the survdiff function can be used to compare the difference of survival time in two or more groups. And the p-value number can ...
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Log-rank / Cox analysis with very unequal sized groups: alternative calculations of p-value?
I would like to set up a series of tests on the difference in survival between two very unequal sized groups.
Generally either log-rank (using the R survdiff function) or a cox regression (R coxph) ...
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log-rank test in R
I need to use the survdiff function to statistically compare (using log-rank test) the following survival functions:
(1) Male (Sex=1) and Female (Sex=2)
(2) ...
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Logrank test for trend (proportional hazards)
How one can create a logrank test for trend and does it differ from normal logrank test? Any suggestions or literature? Maybe some R examples and functions?
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Validity of Log-rank p-value when there are zero events in one group?
I am looking to do a Kaplan Meier analysis to look at survival in two groups. I have 21 people in group A and 17 people in group B. 5 people in group B died at various times, 0 people in group A died, ...
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Sample size / power calculation for logrank survival test
I have really little idea of survival analysis. I am aware that logrank is a special case of Cox' proportional hazards model, and that tons of R packages and scripts address the problem of power / ...
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Error in books formula concerning the log-rank test?
I am currently reading the following book:
Clinical Trials: A Practical Guide to Design, Analysis, and
Reporting by Duolao Wang, Ameet Bakhai (2006)
On page 243-244 there is an example about the log-...
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In which situation does the log-rank test have low power?
This question is complementary to question 1 asked by @Jesse here. It is about the case when we don't find a significant result when performing the log-rank test and when the proportional hazard ...
