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survival (version 2.38-3)

survfit.object: Survival Curve Object

Description

This class of objects is returned by the survfit class of functions to represent a fitted survival curve.

Objects of this class have methods for the functions print, summary, plot, points and lines. The print.survfit method does more computation than is typical for a print method and is documented on a separate page. Class of objects that represent a fitted survival curve.

Arguments

n
total number of subjects in each curve.
time
the time points at which the curve has a step.
n.risk
the number of subjects at risk at t.
n.event
the number of events that occur at time t.
n.enter
for counting process data only, the number of subjects that enter at time t.
n.censor
for counting process data only, the number of subjects who exit the risk set, without an event, at time t. (For right censored data, this number can be computed from the successive values of the number at risk).
surv
the estimate of survival at time t+0. This may be a vector or a matrix.
std.err
the standard error of the cumulative hazard or -log(survival).
upper
upper confidence limit for the survival curve.
lower
lower confidence limit for the survival curve.
strata
if there are multiple curves, this component gives the number of elements of the time etc. vectors corresponding to the first curve, the second curve, and so on. The names of the elements are labels for the curves.
start.time
the value specified for the start.time argument, if it was used in the call.
n.all
for counting process data, and any time that the start.time argument was used, this contains the total number of observations that were available. Not all may have been used in creating the curve, in which case this value will be larger than
conf.type
the approximation used to compute the confidence limits.
conf.int
the level of the confidence limits, e.g. 90 or 95%.
na.action
the returned value from the na.action function, if any. It will be used in the printout of the curve, e.g., the number of observations deleted due to missing values.
call
an image of the call that produced the object.
type
type of survival censoring.

Structure

The following components must be included in a legitimate survfit object.

Subscripts

Survfit objects that contain multiple survival curves can be subscripted. This is most often used to plot a subset of the curves. Usually a single subscript will be used. In one particular case -- survival curves for multiple covariate values, from a Cox model that includes a strata statement -- there is a matrix of curves and 2 subscripts may be used. (In this case summary.survfit will also print the data as a matrix).

See Also

plot.survfit, summary.survfit, print.survfit, survfit.