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Subject: plot survival interaction
From: Andrew Beckerman <a.p.beckerman@stir.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:18:31 +0100
SPLUS 2000 on WinNT
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Hello Users -

I have just found (I think) that the request predict(model,type="terms"), when plotted with the appropriate transformations for the model, provides the same estimate that the request predict(model,type="response",p=.5) gives, though this might only be true for a single covariate. Can anyone tell me if this is wrong?

While the SPLUS manual suggests on page 336 that predict(model, type="terms") are useful for examination of terms in the model that expand to multiple dummy variables, such as factors...", would it be at all sensible to show an interaction between covariates and or factors in a survReg|( ) model by plotting the 50 percentile response against the factor levels using, say, xyplot? e.g.

xyplot(fifty~covariate1|factor2,data=data)

Thanks,
andrew
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