Re: st: Residuals of a Cox regression?

[Steven Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com>]

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Steve Samuels
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On 2010-12-09 6.00 AM, Stata Chris wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to plot the "residuals" of a Cox regression, but when I
> type -predict resid, residuals- after -stcox- Stata tells me that the
> option is not allowed here.
> Indeed it is also not clear how I could compute the residuals manually
> by subtracting the predicted outcome (which is a hazard ratio) from
> the actual outcome, since I'm not sure how to boil the outcome down to
> a single number (except maybe the realized duration?).
>
> Yet since Cox regression like any estimation has an error term, it
> should be possible to say what this error term is for each
> observation?
>
> Thanks a lot for your thoughts on this,
> Chris
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