{"id":3231,"date":"2013-04-29T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T21:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2013-04-29T18:17:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T23:17:55","slug":"the-quantlife-procedure-for-survival-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/the-quantlife-procedure-for-survival-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The QUANTLIFE procedure for survival analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying this live blogging from SAS Global Forum again.<br \/>\nThe title kind of says it PROC QUANTLIFE new procedure in SAS 9.3<br \/>\nWhy DO we need a new procedure for survival analysis?<\/p>\n<p>======<br \/>\nSurvival analysis used to analyze time-to-event data<br \/>\nalready had procs lifetes, lifereg &#038; phreg<br \/>\n========<br \/>\nLifereg is fine if you have IID errors &#8211; but what I&#8217;d you don&#8217;t . Enter quantile regression, possibly wearing a cape #Sasgf13 #noCape<br \/>\n=========<br \/>\nQy(tau) is the tau-th quantile of a random variable Y eg Qy(25) is 25th percentile<br \/>\n==========<br \/>\nQuantile regression &#8211; can have same slope &#038; different intercept for each value given for tau<br \/>\nQuantile regression, option 2 can have different slopes for each value of tau #Sasgf13<br \/>\n=============<\/p>\n<p>Cumulative distribution function is the inverse of the quantile function #Sasgf13<\/p>\n<p>QUANTLIFE example shows covariate that has negative effect for those with short life but positive effect for those with longer life #Sasgf13<\/p>\n<p>Interested in survival analysis when covariates have non-linear relationship to time to event? Check the QUANTLIFE procedure paper #Sasgf13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying this live blogging from SAS Global Forum again. The title kind of says it PROC QUANTLIFE new procedure in SAS 9.3 Why DO we need a new procedure for survival analysis? ====== Survival analysis used to analyze time-to-event data already had procs lifetes, lifereg &#038; phreg ======== Lifereg is fine if you have IID&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-statistics","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}