Using the equations, \(h(t)=\frac{f(t)}{S(t)}\) and \(f(t)=-\frac{dS}{dt}\), we can derive the following relationships between the cumulative hazard function and the other survival functions: \[S(t) = exp(-H(t))\] There are two crucial parts to this: Write down the hypothesis to be tested or quantity to be estimated in terms of the model's parameters and simplify. This analysis proceeds in much the same was as dfbeta analysis, in that we will: We see the same 2 outliers we identifed before, id=89 and id=112, as having the largest influence on the model overall, probably primarily through their effects on the bmi coefficient. Then, as before, subtracting the two coefficient vectors yields the coefficient vector for testing the difference of these two averages. proc univariate data = whas500 (where= (fstat=1)); var lenfol; cdfplot lenfol; run; In the graph above we can see that the probability of surviving 200 days or fewer is near 50%. In the CONTRAST statement, the rows of L are separated by commas. After fitting both models and constructing a data set with variables containing predicted values from both models, the %VUONG macro with the TEST=LR parameter provides the likelihood ratio test. If convergence is not attained in n iterations, the corresponding profile-likelihood confidence limit for the hazard ratio is set to missing. Effects or Deviation from mean coding of a predictor replaces the actual variable in the design matrix (or model matrix) with a set of variables that use values of 1, 0, or 1 to indicate the level of the original variable. For example, if males have twice the hazard rate of females 1 day after followup, the Cox model assumes that males have twice the hazard rate at 1000 days after follow up as well. The CONTRAST statement enables you to specify a matrix, , for testing the hypothesis . A central assumption of Cox regression is that covariate effects on the hazard rate, namely hazard ratios, are constant over time. (2000). The log-rank or Mantel-Haenzel test uses \(w_j = 1\), so differences at all time intervals are weighted equally. These results are from the SLICE statement: The LSMESTIMATE statement produces these results: Following are the relevant sections of the CONTRAST, ESTIMATE, and LSMEANS statement results: Suppose you want to test the average of AB11 and AB12 versus the average of AB21 and AB22. The parameter for ses1 is the difference The PLOTS= option is not available for the maximum likelihood anaysis. Lets take a look at later survival times in the table: From LENFOL=368 to 376, we see that there are several records where it appears no events occurred. So what is the probability of observing subject \(i\) fail at time \(t_j\)? The quantity value must be a positive number, with a default value of 1E4. If an interacting variable is a CLASS variable, variable= ALL is the default; if the interacting variable is continuous, variable= is the default, where is the average of all the sampled values of the continuous variable. The outcome in this study. In the code below we fit a Cox regression model where we allow examine the effects of gender, age, bmi, and heart rate on the hazard rate. This convention can affect the way in which you specify the matrix in your CONTRAST statement. This reinforces our suspicion that the hazard of failure is greater during the beginning of follow-up time. Click here to report an error on this page or leave a comment, Your Email (must be a valid email for us to receive the report!). run; proc lifetest data=whas500 atrisk outs=outwhas500; The above relationship between the cdf and pdf also implies: In SAS, we can graph an estimate of the cdf using proc univariate. The DIFF option in the LSMEANS statement provides all pairwise comparisons of the ten LS-means. In the graph above we can see that the probability of surviving 200 days or fewer is near 50%. Nonparametric methods provide simple and quick looks at the survival experience, and the Cox proportional hazards regression model remains the dominant analysis method. If the elements of are not specified for an effect that contains a specified effect, then the elements of the specified effect are distributed over the levels of the higher-order effect just as the GLM procedure does for its CONTRAST and ESTIMATE statements. We will use a data set called hsb2.sas7bdat to demonstrate. Earlier in the seminar we graphed the Kaplan-Meier survivor function estimates for males and females, and gender appears to adhere to the proportional hazards assumption. This option is ignored in the estimation of hazard ratios for a continuous variable. The response, Y, is normally distributed with constant variance. In the second table, we see that the hazard ratio between genders, \(\frac{HR(gender=1)}{HR(gender=0)}\), decreases with age, significantly different from 1 at age = 0 and age = 20, but becoming non-signicant by 40. The same results can be obtained using the ESTIMATE statement in PROC GENMOD. You use model 3e to expand the average treatment effect: So the hypothesis, written in terms of the model parameters, is simply: The following CONTRAST statement used in PROC LOGISTIC estimates and tests this hypothesis, and produces the following output tables: In PROC GENMOD, use this equivalent ESTIMATE statement: The exponentiated contrast estimate, 0.83, is not really an odds ratio. See the documentation for more details.). Thus, it appears, that when bmi=0, as bmi increases, the hazard rate decreases, but that this negative slope flattens and becomes more positive as bmi increases. If, say, a regression coefficient changes only by 1% over time, it is unlikely that any overarching conclusions of the study would be affected. This example shows the use of the CONTRAST and ODDSRATIO statements to compare the response at two levels of a continuous predictor when the model contains a higher-order effect. These techniques were developed by Lin, Wei and Zing (1993). Copyright The survival function estimate of the the unconditional probability of survival beyond time \(t\) (the probability of survival beyond time \(t\) from the onset of risk) is then obtained by multiplying together these conditional probabilities up to time \(t\) together. Writing the means and their difference in terms of model (2): The following ESTIMATE and CONTRAST statements estimate these means, their difference, and also test that the difference is equal to zero. The HPREG Procedure The HPSPLIT Procedure The ICLIFETEST Procedure The ICPHREG Procedure The INBREED Procedure The IRT Procedure The KDE Procedure The KRIGE2D Procedure The LATTICE Procedure The LIFEREG Procedure The LIFETEST Procedure The LOESS Procedure The LOGISTIC Procedure The MCMC Procedure The MDS Procedure The MI Procedure The following statements show all five ways of computing and testing this contrast. We see that beyond beyond 1,671 days, 50% of the population is expected to have failed. model lenfol*fstat(0) = gender|age bmi|bmi hr hrtime; The same procedure could be repeated to check all covariates. \[F(t) = 1 exp(-H(t))\] tunes the estimability check. However, no statistical tests comparing criterion values is possible. The CONTRAST statement below defines seven rows in L for the seven interaction parameters resulting in a 7 DF test that all interaction parameters are zero. The cumulative distribution function (cdf), \(F(t)\), describes the probability of observing \(Time\) less than or equal to some time \(t\), or \(Pr(Time t)\). 77(1). You can use the EFFECTPLOT statement to visualize the model. The contrast of the ten LS-means specified in the LSMESTIMATE statement estimates and tests the difference between the AB11 and AB12 LS-means. The significance level of the confidence interval is controlled by the ALPHA= option. Printing this document: Because some of the tables in this document are wide, Looking at the table of Product-Limit Survival Estimates below, for the first interval, from 1 day to just before 2 days, \(n_i\) = 500, \(d_i\) = 8, so \(\hat S(1) = \frac{500 8}{500} = 0.984\). Instead, we need only assume that whatever the baseline hazard function is, covariate effects multiplicatively shift the hazard function and these multiplicative shifts are constant over time. Shared Concepts and Topics. However, we have decided that there covariate scores are reasonable so we retain them in the model. model lenfol*fstat(0) = gender|age bmi|bmi hr ; Finally, we strongly suspect that heart rate is predictive of survival, so we include this effect in the model as well. Group of ses =3 is the reference group. Hosmer, DW, Lemeshow, S, May S. (2008). The following statements fit the nested model and compute the contrast. However, a common subclass of interest involves comparison of means and most of the examples below are from this class. output out = dfbeta dfbeta=dfgender dfage dfagegender dfbmi dfbmibmi dfhr; Two logistic models are fit in this example: The first model is saturated, meaning that it contains all possible main effects and interactions using all available degrees of freedom. The ESTIMATE statement syntax enables you to specify the coefficient vector in sections as just described, with one section for each model effect: Note that this same coefficient vector is given in the table of LS-means coefficients, which was requested by the E option in the LSMEANS statement. At the beginning of a given time interval \(t_j\), say there are \(R_j\) subjects still at-risk, each with their own hazard rates: The probability of observing subject \(j\) fail out of all \(R_j\) remaing at-risk subjects, then, is the proportion of the sum total of hazard rates of all \(R_j\) subjects that is made up by subject \(j\)s hazard rate. The necessary contrast coefficients are stated in the null hypothesis above: (0 1 0 0 0 0) - (1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6) , which simplifies to the contrast shown in the LSMESTIMATE statement below. identifies an effect that appears in the MODEL statement. Widening the bandwidth smooths the function by averaging more differences together. Most of the time we will not know a priori the distribution generating our observed survival times, but we can get and idea of what it looks like using nonparametric methods in SAS with proc univariate. The value must be between 0 and 1. PROC PHREG handles missing level combinations of categorical variables in the same manner as PROC GLM. For more information, see the "Generation of the Design Matrix" section in the CATMOD documentation. For a more detailed definition of nested and nonnested models, see the Clarke (2001) reference cited in the sample program. The value number must be between 0 and 1; the default value is 0.05, which results in 95% intervals. 557-72. To specify a Cox model with start and stop times for each interval, due to the usage of time-varying covariates, we need to specify the start and top time in the model statement: If the data come prepared with one row of data per subject each time a covariate changes value, then the researcher does not need to expand the data any further. Notice that the difference in log odds for these two cells (1.02450 0.39087 = 0.63363) is the same as the log odds ratio estimate that is provided by the CONTRAST statement. The function that describes likelihood of observing \(Time\) at time \(t\) relative to all other survival times is known as the probability density function (pdf), or \(f(t)\). Wiley: Hoboken. All of the statements mentioned above can be used for this purpose. Because of its simple relationship with the survival function, \(S(t)=e^{-H(t)}\), the cumulative hazard function can be used to estimate the survival function. Models fit with the GENMOD or GEE procedure using the REPEATED statement are estimated using the generalized estimating equations (GEE) method and not by maximum likelihood so a LR test cannot be constructed. Below we demonstrate use of the assess statement to the functional form of the covariates. you might need to print it in landscape mode to avoid truncation of the right edge. These provide some statistical background for survival analysis for the interested reader (and for the author of the seminar!). Logistic models are in the class of generalized linear models. run; However, we can still get an idea of the hazard rate using a graph of the kernel-smoothed estimate. Examples of this simpler situation can be found in the example titled "Randomized Complete Blocks with Means Comparisons and Contrasts" in the PROC GLM documentation and in this note which uses PROC GENMOD. EXAMPLE 3: A Two-Factor Logistic Model with Interaction Using Dummy and Effects Coding The ODDSRATIO statement used above with dummy coding provides the same results with effects coding. run; proc phreg data = whas500; If the observed pattern differs significantly from the simulated patterns, we reject the null hypothesis that the model is correctly specified, and conclude that the model should be modified. At this stage we might be interested in expanding the model with more predictor effects. In all of the plots, the martingale residuals tend to be larger and more positive at low bmi values, and smaller and more negative at high bmi values. Therneau, TM, Grambsch PM, Fleming TR (1990). model lenfol*fstat(0) = gender|age bmi hr; "exposure.". But an equivalent representation of the model is: where Ai and Bj are sets of design variables that are defined as follows using dummy coding: For the medical example above, model 3b for the odds of being cured are: Estimating and Testing Odds Ratios with Dummy Coding. ALPHA=number specifies the level of significance for % confidence intervals. hrtime = hr*lenfol; `Pn.bR#l8(QBQ p9@E,IF0QlPC4NC)R- R]*C!B)Uj.$qpa *O'CAI ")7 Models are nested if one model results from restrictions on the parameters of the other model. See the example titled "Comparing nested models with a likelihood ratio test" which illustrates using the %VUONG macro to produce the same test as obtained above from the CONTRAST statement in PROC GENMOD. In the graph above we see the correspondence between pdfs and histograms. The estimate of survival beyond 3 days based off this Nelson-Aalen estimate of the cumulative hazard would then be \(\hat S(3) = exp(-0.0385) = 0.9623\). First, each of the effects, including both interactions, are significant. Beside using the solution option to get the parameter estimates, A full-rank version of indicator coding (called reference coding) that omits the indicator variable for the reference level (by default, the last level) is also available in PROC LOGISTIC, PROC GENMOD, PROC CATMOD, and some other procedures via the PARAM=REF option. Some data management will be required to ensure that everyone is properly censored in each interval. Construction and Computation of Estimable Functions, Specifies a list of values to divide the coefficients, Suppresses the automatic fill-in of coefficients for higher-order effects, Tunes the estimability checking difference, Determines the method for multiple comparison adjustment of estimates, Performs one-sided, lower-tailed inference, Adjusts multiplicity-corrected p-values further in a step-down fashion, Specifies values under the null hypothesis for tests, Performs one-sided, upper-tailed inference, Displays the correlation matrix of estimates, Displays the covariance matrix of estimates, Produces a joint or chi-square test for the estimable functions, Requests ODS statistical graphics if the analysis is sampling-based, Specifies the seed for computations that depend on random numbers. First, write the model, being sure to verify its parameters and their order from the procedure's displayed results: Now write each part of the contrast in terms of the effects-coded model (3e). The value that you specify in the option divides all the coefficients that are provided in the ESTIMATE statement. where \(d_{ij}\) is the observed number of failures in stratum \(i\) at time \(t_j\), \(\hat e_{ij}\) is the expected number of failures in stratum \(i\) at time \(t_j\), \(\hat v_{ij}\) is the estimator of the variance of \(d_{ij}\), and \(w_i\) is the weight of the difference at time \(t_j\) (see Hosmer and Lemeshow(2008) for formulas for \(\hat e_{ij}\) and \(\hat v_{ij}\)). i am wondering either i add "CLASS" statement ornot. Nevertheless, in both we can see that in these data, shorter survival times are more probable, indicating that the risk of heart attack is strong initially and tapers off as time passes. We can similarly calculate the joint probability of observing each of the \(n\) subjects failure times, or the likelihood of the failure times, as a function of the regression parameters, \(\beta\), given the subjects covariates values \(x_j\): \[L(\beta) = \prod_{j=1}^{n} \Bigg\lbrace\frac{exp(x_j\beta)}{\sum_{iin R_j}exp(x_i\beta)}\Bigg\rbrace\]. fixed. Example 3: using the CONTRAST statement to do comparison: When we set the reference levels to be REF='NEV' for TOBHX and REF='GP' for RND, we need to manually set the contrast parameters for each comparison in the CONTRAST statement. format gender gender. 2009 by SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA. run; proc phreg data = whas500; With this simple model, we run; proc phreg data = whas500; Notice that the interval during which the first 25% of the population is expected to fail, [0,297) is much shorter than the interval during which the second 25% of the population is expected to fail, [297,1671). In a nutshell, these statistics sum the weighted differences between the observed number of failures and the expected number of failures for each stratum at each timepoint, assuming the same survival function of each stratum. You can fit many kinds of logistic models in many procedures including LOGISTIC, GENMOD, GLIMMIX, PROBIT, CATMOD, and others. Weberian asked a slighltly similar question (Hazardratio statement, interaction in Proc Phreg (cox-regression)) but it does not answer this. The value pmust be between 0 and 1. Disease: 1=Disease, 0=No disease Drug: 1=Drug, 0=No drug This make the interaction a "2x2 table" (as below). In regression models for survival analysis, we attempt to estimate parameters which describe the relationship between our predictors and the hazard rate. For this reason, it is known as a full-rank parameterization. Estimates are formed as linear estimable functions of the form . One caveat is that this method for determining functional form is less reliable when covariates are correlated. histogram lenfol / kernel; class gender; proc univariate data = whas500(where=(fstat=1)); The first element is the estimate of the intercept, . Previously, we graphed the survival functions of males in females in the WHAS500 dataset and suspected that the survival experience after heart attack may be different between the two genders. This indicates that our choice of modeling a linear and quadratic effect of bmi was a reasonable one. If nonproportional hazards are detected, the researcher has many options with how to address the violation (Therneau & Grambsch, 2000): After fitting a model it is good practice to assess the influence of observations in your data, to check if any outlier has a disproportionately large impact on the model. For example, if there were three subjects still at risk at time \(t_j\), the probability of observing subject 2 fail at time \(t_j\) would be: \[Pr(subject=2|failure=t_j)=\frac{h(t_j|x_2)}{h(t_j|x_1)+h(t_j|x_2)+h(t_j|x_3)}\]. If too many values are specified for an effect, the extra ones are ignored. The following statements do the model comparison using PROC LOGISTIC and the Wald test produces a very similar result. We request Cox regression through proc phreg in SAS. model lenfol*fstat(0) = gender|age bmi|bmi hr ; Several covariates can be evaluated simultaneously. assess var=(age bmi bmi*bmi hr) / resample; var lenfol gender age bmi hr; Estimates are formed as linear estimable functions of the form . For this example, the table confirms that the parameters are ordered as shown in model 3c. Once outliers are identified, we then decide whether to keep the observation or throw it out, because perhaps the data may have been entered in error or the observation is not particularly representative of the population of interest. All As an example, suppose that you intend to use PROC REG to perform a linear regression, and you want to capture the R-square value in a SAS data set. The simple contrast shown in the LSMESTIMATE statement below compares the fourth and eighth means as desired. specifies that both the contrast and the exponentiated contrast be estimated. Finally, you can use the SLICE statement. specifies the tolerance for testing the singularity of the Hessian matrix in the computation of the profile-likelihood confidence limits. Notice in the Analysis of Maximum Likelihood Estimates table above that the Hazard Ratio entries for terms involved in interactions are left empty. The result, while not strictly an odds ratio, is useful as a comparison of the odds of treatment A to the "average" odds of the treatments. For these models, the response is no longer modeled directly. Unless the seed option is specified, these sets will be different each time proc phreg is run. In intervals where event times are more probable (here the beginning intervals), the cdf will increase faster. The survival function drops most steeply at the beginning of study, suggesting that the hazard rate is highest immediately after hospitalization during the first 200 days. This matches closely with the Kaplan Meier product-limit estimate of survival beyond 3 days of 0.9620. See. It is called the proportional hazards model because the ratio of hazard rates between two groups with fixed covariates will stay constant over time in this model. One variable is created for each level of the original variable. With such data, each subject can be represented by one row of data, as each covariate only requires only value. Phreg For Survival Analysis In Sas 9 has been minimal coverage in the available literature to9 guide researchers, practitioners, and students who wish to apply these methods to health-related areas of study. For simple uses, only the PROC PHREG and MODEL statements are required. The tests are equivalent. One can also use non-parametric methods to test for equality of the survival function among groups in the following manner: In the graph of the Kaplan-Meier estimator stratified by gender below, it appears that females generally have a worse survival experience. Thus, each term in the product is the conditional probability of survival beyond time \(t_i\), meaning the probability of surviving beyond time \(t_i\), given the subject has survived up to time \(t_i\). How do I write an estimate statement in proc glm? Since treatment A and treatment C are the first and third in the LSMEANS list, the contrast in the LSMESTIMATE statement estimates and tests their difference. The Kaplan_Meier survival function estimator is calculated as: \[\hat S(t)=\prod_{t_i\leq t}\frac{n_i d_i}{n_i}, \]. We could test for different age effects with an interaction term between gender and age. time lenfol*fstat(0); This can be particularly difficult with dummy (PARAM=GLM) coding. In large datasets, very small departures from proportional hazards can be detected. The individual AB11 and AB12 cell means are: The coefficients for the average of the AB21 and AB22 cells are determined in the same fashion. A More Complex Contrast This coding scheme is used by default by PROC CATMOD and PROC LOGISTIC and can be specified in these and some other procedures such as PROC GENMOD with the PARAM=EFFECT option in the CLASS statement. For a row vector of the contrast matrix , define to be equal to ABS if ABS is greater than 0; otherwise, equals 1. Thus, we can expect the coefficient for bmi to be more severe or more negative if we exclude these observations from the model. For each subject, the entirety of follow up time is partitioned into intervals, each defined by a start and stop time. Consider the following data from Kalbeisch and Prentice (1980). The background necessary to explain the mathematical definition of a martingale residual is beyond the scope of this seminar, but interested readers may consult (Therneau, 1990). The Nelson-Aalen estimator is a non-parametric estimator of the cumulative hazard function and is given by: \[\hat H(t) = \sum_{t_i leq t}\frac{d_i}{n_i},\]. Graphs of the Kaplan-Meier estimate of the survival function allow us to see how the survival function changes over time and are fortunately very easy to generate in SAS: The step function form of the survival function is apparent in the graph of the Kaplan-Meier estimate. o1LSRD"Qh&3[F&g w/!|#+QnHA8Oy9 , Summing over the entire interval, then, we would expect to observe \(x\) failures, as \(\frac{x}{t}t = x\), (assuming repeated failures are possible, such that failing does not remove one from observation). Maximum likelihood methods attempt to find the \(\beta\) values that maximize this likelihood, that is, the regression parameters that yield the maximum joint probability of observing the set of failure times with the associated set of covariate values. A main effect parameter is interpreted as the deviation of the level's effect from the average effect of all the levels. EXAMPLE 4: Comparing Models With mixed models fit in PROC MIXED, if the models are nested in the covariance parameters and have identical fixed effects, then a LR test can be constructed using results from REML estimation (the default) or from ML estimation. It contains numerous examples in SAS and R. Grambsch, PM, Therneau, TM. Examples of Writing CONTRAST and ESTIMATE Statements Introduction EXAMPLE 1: A Two-Factor Model with Interaction Computing the Cell Means Using the ESTIMATE Statement Estimating and Testing a Difference of Means A More Complex Contrast Comparing One Interaction Mean to the Average of All Interaction Means specifies the alpha level of the interval estimates for the hazard ratios. (1995). As a consequence, you can test or estimate only homogeneous linear combinations (those with zero-intercept coefficients, such as contrasts that represent group differences) for the GLM parameterization. Comparing One Interaction Mean to the Average of All Interaction Means (1993). You can perform hypothesis tests for the estimable functions, construct confidence limits, and obtain specific nonlinear transformations. Thus far in this seminar we have only dealt with covariates with values fixed across follow up time. From these equations we can also see that we would expect the pdf, \(f(t)\), to be high when \(h(t)\) the hazard rate is high (the beginning, in this study) and when the cumulative hazard \(H(t)\) is low (the beginning, for all studies). Such linear combinations can be estimated and tested using the CONTRAST and/or ESTIMATE statements available in many modeling procedures. Tests to compare nonnested models are available, but not by using CONTRAST statements as discussed above. Watch this tutorial for more. Acquiring more than one curve, whether survival or hazard, after Cox regression in SAS requires use of the baseline statement in conjunction with the creation of a small dataset of covariate values at which to estimate our curves of interest. ALPHA=number specifies the level of significance for % confidence intervals. The EXP option provides the odds ratio estimate by exponentiating the difference. It is shown how this can be done more easily using the ODDSRATIO and UNITS statements in PROC LOGISTIC. Previously we suspected that the effect of bmi on the log hazard rate may not be purely linear, so it would be wise to investigate further. It is expected that the model with Bilirubin in the log scale would have a better discriminating power than the model with Bilirubin in the original scale.
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