June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
Variables with a higher number of levels will often be difficult to manage even though there may be statistically significant differences shown in the curves. This can be due to the smaller sizes of the groups. Rather than try to analyse all the groups at once, it often makes more sense to first find a cutoff point that collapses the variable into a binary outcome.
For example, running the survdiff() function on the number of service calls (ranging from 0 to 5) shows a significant difference between the individual survival curves:
> survdiff(SurvObj ~ Xservice.calls, data = ChurnStudy)Call:survdiff(formula = SurvObj ~ Xservice.calls, data = ChurnStudy) N Observed Expected (O-E)^2/E (OE)^2/V ...