library(survival) # # Check out intercept/interaction for Frank H # age2 <- lung$age - 50 fit1 <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ age * strata(sex), lung) fit2 <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ age2*strata(sex), lung) tdata <- data.frame(age=50:60, age2=0:10, sex=c(1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1)) surv1 <- survfit(fit1, tdata) surv2 <- survfit(fit2, tdata) # The call won't match, nor the newdata data frame icall <- match(c("newdata", "call"), names(surv1)) all.equal(unclass(surv1)[-icall], unclass(surv2)[-icall]) # It should match what I get with a single strata fit fit3 <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ age, data=lung, init=fit1$coef[1], subset=(sex==1), iter=0) surv1b <- survfit(fit3, newdata=list(age=c(50,52, 54))) all.equal(c(surv1b$surv), surv1[c(1,3,5)]$surv)