Re: [R] Speeding up prediction of survival estimates when using `survifit'

2010-08-31 Thread Frank Harrell
Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and ChairmanSchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Ravi Varadhan wrote: Hi, I fit a Cox PH model to estimate the cause-specific hazards (in a competing risks setting). Then , I

[R] Speeding up prediction of survival estimates when using `survifit'

2010-08-30 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi, I fit a Cox PH model to estimate the cause-specific hazards (in a competing risks setting). Then , I compute the survival estimates for all the individuals in my data set using the `survfit' function. I am currently playing with a data set that has about 6000 observations and 12