Formally, the Schoenfeld residuals are defined as one residual per event time.
I found that when there are tied events, however, that plots of the residuals could be hard to visually interpret: sometimes a residual was large because of a lack of fit at that point, sometimes because several death happened concurrently at that point. Since the Shoenfeld residual is a sum over the events at each time point, coxph returns one residual per EVENT, rather than one per event time. The plots work much better (my subjective opinion). If you sum the returned residuals at a given event time, you will get the common result. Terry Therneau ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.