# # Test the logic of the new program, by fitting some no-frailty models # (theta=0). It should give exactly the same answers as 'ordinary' coxph. # By default frailty models run with eps=1e-7, ordinary with 1e-4. I match # these to get the same number of iterations. # test1 <- data.frame(time= c(4, 3,1,1,2,2,3), status=c(1,NA,1,0,1,1,0), x= c(0, 2,1,1,1,0,0)) test2 <- data.frame(start=c(1, 2, 5, 2, 1, 7, 3, 4, 8, 8), stop =c(2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9,14,17), event=c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0), x =c(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) ) zz <- rep(0, nrow(test1)) tfit1 <- coxph(Surv(time,status) ~x, test1, eps=1e-7) tfit2 <- coxph(Surv(time,status) ~x + frailty(zz, theta=0, sparse=T), test1) tfit3 <- coxph(Surv(zz,time,status) ~x + frailty(zz, theta=0,sparse=T), test1) temp <- c('coefficients', 'var', 'loglik', 'linear.predictors', 'means', 'n') all.equal(tfit1[temp], tfit2[temp]) all.equal(tfit1[temp], tfit3[temp]) zz <- rep(0, nrow(test2)) tfit1 <- coxph(Surv(start, stop, event) ~x, test2, eps=1e-7) tfit2 <- coxph(Surv(start, stop, event) ~ x + frailty(zz, theta=0, sparse=T), test2) all.equal(tfit1[temp], tfit2[temp])