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Predictive survival model with time-dependent prognostic factors: development of computer-aided SAS Macro program.

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 11 (2): 181-93 (April 2005)3816<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>Anàlisi de supervivència; SAS.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2005.00519.x

Abstract

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Computer program for the prediction of survival with respect to time-dependent proportional hazards regression model has been rarely addressed. We therefore developed a SAS Macro program for time-dependent Cox regression predictive model for empirical survival data associated with time-dependent covariates. METHOD: Time-dependent proportional hazards regression model and partial likelihood in association with time-varying predictors were explicitly delineated. Baseline hazard using Andersen's method was incorporated into proportional hazards regression model to predict the dynamic change of cumulative survival in respect of time-varying predictors. Two SAS Macro programs for time-dependent predictive survival model and model validation using receiver operative characteristics were written with SAS IML language. RESULTS: The computer program was applied to data on clinical surveillance of small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated by percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) or transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) with time-varying predictors such as alpha-feto protein (AFP) and other biological markers. CONCLUSION: The program is very useful for real-time prediction of cumulative survival on the basis of time-dependent covariates.

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