simPH: An R package for illustrating estimates from cox proportional hazard models including for interactive and nonlinear effects

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-20

  Gandrud, Christopher ^a  

^a HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cox proportional hazard models; Hazard ratios; Nonlinearity; R; Splines; Time interactions; Time varying; Visual weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930166734     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v065.i03     Document Type: Article

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