# # Here is a test case with multiple smoothing terms # fit0 <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ ph.ecog + age, lung) fit1 <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ ph.ecog + pspline(age,3), lung) fit2 <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ ph.ecog + pspline(age,4), lung) fit3 <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ ph.ecog + pspline(age,8), lung) fit4 <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ ph.ecog + pspline(wt.loss,3), lung) fit5 <-coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ ph.ecog + pspline(age,3) + pspline(wt.loss,3), lung) fit1 fit2 fit3 fit4 fit5 rm(fit1, fit2, fit3, fit4, fit5)