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Plot estimated survival curves, and for parametric survival models, plot
hazard functions. There is an option to print the number of subjects
at risk at the start of each time interval. Curves are automatically
labeled at the points of maximum separation (using the labcurve
function), and there are many other options for labeling that can be
specified with the label.curves
parameter. For example, different
plotting symbols can be placed at constant x-increments and a legend
linking the symbols with category labels can automatically positioned on
the most empty portion of the plot.
For the case of a two stratum analysis by npsurv
,
survdiffplot
plots the difference in two Kaplan-Meier estimates
along with approximate confidence bands for the differences, with a
reference line at zero. The number of subjects at risk is optionally
plotted. This number is taken as the minimum of the number of subjects
at risk over the two strata. When conf='diffbands'
,
survdiffplot
instead does not make a new plot but adds a shaded
polygon to an existing plot, showing the midpoint of two survival
estimates plus or minus 1/2 the width of the confidence interval for the
difference of two Kaplan-Meier estimates.
survplotp
creates an interactive plotly
graphic with
shaded confidence bands. In the two strata case, it draws the 1/2
confidence bands for the difference in two probabilities centered at the
midpoint of the probability estimates, so that where the two curves
touch this band there is no significant difference (no multiplicity
adjustment is made). For the two strata case, the two individual
confidence bands have entries in the legend but are not displayed until
the user clicks on the legend.
When code
was from running npsurv
on a
multi-state/competing risk Surv
object, survplot
plots
cumulative incidence curves properly accounting for competing risks.
You must specify exactly one state/event cause to plot using the
state
argument. survplot
will not plot multiple states on
one graph. This can be accomplished using multiple calls with different
values of state
and specifying add=TRUE
for all but the
first call.
survplot(fit, ...)
survplotp(fit, ...)
# S3 method for rms
survplot(fit, ..., xlim,
ylim=if(loglog) c(-5, 1.5) else if
(what == "survival" & missing(fun)) c(0, 1),
xlab, ylab, time.inc,
what=c("survival","hazard"),
type=c("tsiatis","kaplan-meier"),
conf.type=c("log","log-log","plain","none"),
conf.int=FALSE, conf=c("bands","bars"), mylim=NULL,
add=FALSE, label.curves=TRUE,
abbrev.label=FALSE, levels.only=FALSE,
lty, lwd=par("lwd"),
col=1, col.fill=gray(seq(.95, .75, length=5)),
adj.subtitle=TRUE, loglog=FALSE, fun,
n.risk=FALSE, logt=FALSE, dots=FALSE, dotsize=.003,
grid=NULL, srt.n.risk=0, sep.n.risk=0.056, adj.n.risk=1,
y.n.risk, cex.n.risk=.6, cex.xlab=par('cex.lab'),
cex.ylab=cex.xlab, pr=FALSE)
# S3 method for npsurv
survplot(fit, xlim,
ylim, xlab, ylab, time.inc, state=NULL,
conf=c("bands","bars","diffbands","none"), mylim=NULL,
add=FALSE, label.curves=TRUE, abbrev.label=FALSE,
levels.only=FALSE, lty,lwd=par('lwd'),
col=1, col.fill=gray(seq(.95, .75, length=5)),
loglog=FALSE, fun, n.risk=FALSE, aehaz=FALSE, times=NULL,
logt=FALSE, dots=FALSE, dotsize=.003, grid=NULL,
srt.n.risk=0, sep.n.risk=.056, adj.n.risk=1,
y.n.risk, cex.n.risk=.6, cex.xlab=par('cex.lab'), cex.ylab=cex.xlab,
pr=FALSE, ...)
# S3 method for npsurv
survplotp(fit, xlim, ylim, xlab, ylab, time.inc, state=NULL,
conf=c("bands", "none"), mylim=NULL, abbrev.label=FALSE,
col=colorspace::rainbow_hcl, levels.only=TRUE,
loglog=FALSE, fun=function(y) y, aehaz=FALSE, times=NULL,
logt=FALSE, pr=FALSE, ...)
survdiffplot(fit, order=1:2, fun=function(y) y,
xlim, ylim, xlab, ylab="Difference in Survival Probability",
time.inc, conf.int, conf=c("shaded", "bands","diffbands","none"),
add=FALSE, lty=1, lwd=par('lwd'), col=1,
n.risk=FALSE, grid=NULL,
srt.n.risk=0, adj.n.risk=1,
y.n.risk, cex.n.risk=.6, cex.xlab=par('cex.lab'),
cex.ylab=cex.xlab, convert=function(f) f)
list with components adjust (text string specifying adjustment levels)
and curve.labels
(vector of text strings corresponding to levels
of factor used to distinguish curves). For npsurv
, the returned
value is the vector of strata labels, or NULL if there are no strata.
result of fit (cph
, psm
, npsurv
,
survest.psm
). For survdiffplot
, fit
must be the
result of npsurv
.
list of factors with names used in model. For fits from npsurv
these arguments do not appear - all strata are plotted. Otherwise the
first factor listed is the factor used to determine different survival
curves. Any other factors are used to specify single constants to be
adjusted to, when defaults given to fitting routine (through
limits
) are not used. The value given to factors is the original
coding of data given to fit, except that for categorical or strata
factors the text string levels may be specified. The form of values
given to the first factor are none (omit the equal sign to use default range
or list of all values if variable is discrete), "text"
if factor
is categorical, c(value1, value2, ...)
, or a function which
returns a vector, such as seq(low,high,by=increment)
. Only the
first factor may have the values omitted. In this case the Low
effect
, Adjust to
, and High effect
values will be used
from datadist
if the variable is continuous. For variables not
defined to datadist
, you must specify non-missing constant
settings (or a vector of settings for the one displayed variable). Note
that since npsurv
objects do not use the variable list in
...
, you can specify any extra arguments to labcurve
by
adding them at the end of the list of arguments. For survplotp
... (e.g., height
, width
) is passed to plotly::plot_ly
.
a vector of two numbers specifiying the x-axis range for follow-up time.
Default is (0,maxtime)
where maxtime
was the pretty()
d version
of the maximum follow-up time
in any stratum, stored in fit$maxtime
. If logt=TRUE
,
default is (1, log(maxtime))
.
y-axis limits. Default is c(0,1)
for survival, and
c(-5,1.5)
if loglog=TRUE
. If fun
or
loglog=TRUE
are given and ylim
is not, the limits will be
computed from the data. For what="hazard"
, default
limits are computed from the first hazard function plotted.
x-axis label. Default is units
attribute of failure time
variable given to Surv
.
y-axis label. Default is "Survival Probability"
or
"log(-log Survival Probability)"
. If fun
is given, the default
is ""
. For what="hazard"
, the default is
"Hazard Function"
. For a multi-state/competing risk application
the default is "Cumulative Incidence"
.
time increment for labeling the x-axis and printing numbers at risk.
If not specified, the value
of time.inc
stored with the model fit will be used.
the state/event cause to use in plotting if the fit was for
a multi-state/competing risk Surv
object
specifies type of estimates, "tsiatis"
(the default) or "kaplan-meier"
.
"tsiatis"
here corresponds to the Breslow
estimator. This is ignored if survival estimates stored with surv=TRUE
are
being used. For fits from npsurv
, this argument
is also ignored, since it is specified as an argument to npsurv
.
specifies the basis for confidence limits. This argument is
ignored for fits from npsurv
.
Default is FALSE
. Specify e.g. .95
to plot 0.95 confidence bands.
For fits from parametric survival models, or Cox models with
x=TRUE
and y=TRUE
specified to the fit, the exact
asymptotic formulas will be used to compute standard errors, and
confidence limits are based on log(-log S(t))
if loglog=TRUE
.
If x=TRUE
and y=TRUE
were not specified to cph
but
surv=TRUE
was, the standard errors stored for the underlying
survival curve(s) will be used. These agree with the former if
predictions are requested at the mean value of X beta or if there are
only stratification factors in the model. This argument is ignored for
fits from npsurv
, which must have previously specified
confidence interval specifications. For survdiffplot
if
conf.int
is not specified, the level used in the call to
npsurv
will be used.
"bars"
for confidence bars at each time.inc
time point. If the fit
was from cph(..., surv=TRUE)
, the time.inc
used will be
that stored with the fit. Use conf="bands"
(the default) for
bands using standard errors at each failure time. For npsurv
objects only, conf
may also be "none"
, indicating that
confidence interval information stored with the npsurv
result
should be ignored. For npsurv
and survdiffplot
,
conf
may be "diffbands"
whereby a shaded region is drawn
for comparing two curves. The polygon is centered at the midpoint of
the two survival estimates and the height of the polygon is 1/2 the
width of the approximate conf.int
pointwise confidence region.
Survival curves not overlapping the shaded area are approximately
significantly different at the 1 - conf.int
level.
used to curtail computed ylim
. When ylim
is
not given by the user, the computed limits are expanded to force
inclusion of the values specified in mylim
.
defaults to "survival"
to plot survival estimates. Set to
"hazard"
or an abbreviation to plot the hazard function (for
psm
fits only). Confidence intervals are not available for
what="hazard"
.
set to TRUE
to add curves to an existing plot.
default is TRUE
to use labcurve
to label curves where they are farthest
apart. Set label.curves
to a list
to specify options to
labcurve
, e.g., label.curves=list(method="arrow", cex=.8)
.
These option names may be abbreviated in the usual way arguments
are abbreviated. Use for example label.curves=list(keys=1:5)
to draw symbols (as in pch=1:5
- see points
)
on the curves and automatically position a legend
in the most empty part of the plot. Set label.curves=FALSE
to
suppress drawing curve labels. The col
, lty
, lwd
, and type
parameters are automatically passed to labcurve
, although you
can override them here. To distinguish curves by line types and
still have labcurve
construct a legend, use for example
label.curves=list(keys="lines")
. The negative value for the
plotting symbol will suppress a plotting symbol from being drawn
either on the curves or in the legend.
set to TRUE
to abbreviate()
curve labels that are plotted
set to TRUE
to remove variablename=
from the start of
curve labels.
vector of line types to use for different factor levels. Default is
c(1,3,4,5,6,7,...)
.
vector of line widths to use for different factor levels. Default is
current par
setting for lwd
.
color for curve, default is 1
. Specify a vector to assign different
colors to different curves. For survplotp
, col
is a
vector of colors corresponding to strata, or a function that will be
called to generate such colors.
a vector of colors to used in filling confidence bands
set to FALSE
to suppress plotting subtitle with levels of adjustment factors
not plotted. Defaults to TRUE
.
This argument is ignored for npsurv
.
set to TRUE
to plot log(-log Survival)
instead of Survival
specifies any function to translate estimates and confidence limits
before plotting. If the fit is a multi-state object the default for
fun
is function(y) 1 - y
to draw cumulative incidence curves.
set to TRUE
to plot log(t)
instead of t
on the x-axis
set to TRUE
to add number of subjects at risk for each curve, using the
surv.summary
created by cph
or using the failure times used in
fitting the model if y=TRUE
was specified to the fit or if the fit
was from npsurv
.
The numbers are placed at the bottom
of the graph unless y.n.risk
is given.
If the fit is from survest.psm
, n.risk
does not apply.
angle of rotation for leftmost number of subjects at risk (since this number
may run into the second or into the y-axis). Default is 0
.
justification for leftmost number at risk. Default is 1
for right
justification.
Use 0
for left justification, .5
for centered.
multiple of upper y limit - lower y limit for separating lines of text
containing number of subjects at risk. Default is .056*(ylim[2]-ylim[1])
.
When n.risk=TRUE
, the default is to place numbers of patients at
risk above the x-axis. You can specify a y-coordinate for the bottom
line of the numbers using y.n.risk
. Specify
y.n.risk='auto'
to place the numbers below the x-axis at a
distance of 1/3 of the range of ylim
.
character size for number of subjects at risk (when n.risk
is
TRUE
)
cex
for x-axis label
cex
for y-axis label
set to TRUE
to plot a grid of dots. Will be plotted at every
time.inc
(see cph
) and at survival increments of .1 (if
d>.4
), .05 (if .2 < d <= .4
), or .025 (if d <= .2
),
where d
is the range of survival displayed.
size of dots in inches
defaults to NULL
(not drawing grid lines). Set to TRUE
to
plot gray(.8)
grid lines, or specify any color.
set to TRUE
to print survival curve coordinates used in the plots
set to TRUE
to add number of events and exponential
distribution hazard rate estimates in curve labels. For
competing risk data the number of events is for the cause of interest,
and the hazard rate is the number of events divided by the sum of all
failure and censoring times.
a numeric vector of times at which to compute cumulative incidence probability estimates to add to curve labels
an integer vector of length two specifying the order of groups when
computing survival differences. The default of 1:2
indicates
that the second group is subtracted from the first. Specify
order=2:1
to instead subtract the first from the second. A
subtitle indicates what was done.
a function to convert the output of
summary.survfitms
to pick off the data needed for a single state
plots. If par()$mar[4] < 4
, issues par(mar=)
to increment mar[4]
by 2
if n.risk=TRUE
and add=FALSE
. The user may want to reset par(mar)
in
this case to not leave such a wide right margin for plots. You usually
would issue par(mar=c(5,4,4,2)+.1)
.
survplot
will not work for Cox models with time-dependent covariables.
Use survest
or survfit
for that purpose.
There is a set a system option mgp.axis.labels
to allow x
and y-axes to have differing mgp
graphical parameters (see par
).
This is important when labels for y-axis tick marks are to be written
horizontally (par(las=1)
), as a larger gap between the labels and
the tick marks are needed. You can set the axis-specific 2nd
component of mgp
using mgp.axis.labels(c(xvalue,yvalue))
.
Boers M (2004): Null bar and null zone are better than the error bar to compare group means in graphs. J Clin Epi 57:712-715.
# Simulate data from a population model in which the log hazard
# function is linear in age and there is no age x sex interaction
require(survival)
n <- 1000
set.seed(731)
age <- 50 + 12*rnorm(n)
label(age) <- "Age"
sex <- factor(sample(c('male','female'), n, TRUE))
cens <- 15*runif(n)
h <- .02*exp(.04*(age-50)+.8*(sex=='female'))
dt <- -log(runif(n))/h
label(dt) <- 'Follow-up Time'
e <- ifelse(dt <= cens,1,0)
dt <- pmin(dt, cens)
units(dt) <- "Year"
dd <- datadist(age, sex)
options(datadist='dd')
S <- Surv(dt,e)
# When age is in the model by itself and we predict at the mean age,
# approximate confidence intervals are ok
f <- cph(S ~ age, surv=TRUE)
survplot(f, age=mean(age), conf.int=.95)
g <- cph(S ~ age, x=TRUE, y=TRUE)
survplot(g, age=mean(age), conf.int=.95, add=TRUE, col='red', conf='bars')
# Repeat for an age far from the mean; not ok
survplot(f, age=75, conf.int=.95)
survplot(g, age=75, conf.int=.95, add=TRUE, col='red', conf='bars')
#Plot stratified survival curves by sex, adj for quadratic age effect
# with age x sex interaction (2 d.f. interaction)
f <- cph(S ~ pol(age,2)*strat(sex), x=TRUE, y=TRUE)
#or f <- psm(S ~ pol(age,2)*sex)
Predict(f, sex, age=c(30,50,70))
survplot(f, sex, n.risk=TRUE, levels.only=TRUE) #Adjust age to median
survplot(f, sex, logt=TRUE, loglog=TRUE) #Check for Weibull-ness (linearity)
survplot(f, sex=c("male","female"), age=50)
#Would have worked without datadist
#or with an incomplete datadist
survplot(f, sex, label.curves=list(keys=c(2,0), point.inc=2))
#Identify curves with symbols
survplot(f, sex, label.curves=list(keys=c('m','f')))
#Identify curves with single letters
#Plots by quintiles of age, adjusting sex to male
options(digits=3)
survplot(f, age=quantile(age,(1:4)/5), sex="male")
#Plot survival Kaplan-Meier survival estimates for males
f <- npsurv(S ~ 1, subset=sex=="male")
survplot(f)
#Plot survival for both sexes and show exponential hazard estimates
f <- npsurv(S ~ sex)
survplot(f, aehaz=TRUE)
#Check for log-normal and log-logistic fits
survplot(f, fun=qnorm, ylab="Inverse Normal Transform")
survplot(f, fun=function(y)log(y/(1-y)), ylab="Logit S(t)")
#Plot the difference between sexes
survdiffplot(f)
#Similar but show half-width of confidence intervals centered
#at average of two survival estimates
#See Boers (2004)
survplot(f, conf='diffbands')
options(datadist=NULL)
if (FALSE) {
#
# Time to progression/death for patients with monoclonal gammopathy
# Competing risk curves (cumulative incidence)
# status variable must be a factor with first level denoting right censoring
m <- upData(mgus1, stop = stop / 365.25, units=c(stop='years'),
labels=c(stop='Follow-up Time'), subset=start == 0)
f <- npsurv(Surv(stop, event) ~ 1, data=m)
# Use survplot for enhanced displays of cumulative incidence curves for
# competing risks
survplot(f, state='pcm', n.risk=TRUE, xlim=c(0, 20), ylim=c(0, .5), col=2)
survplot(f, state='death', aehaz=TRUE, col=3,
label.curves=list(keys='lines'))
f <- npsurv(Surv(stop, event) ~ sex, data=m)
survplot(f, state='death', aehaz=TRUE, n.risk=TRUE, conf='diffbands',
label.curves=list(keys='lines'))
}
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