[R] Error in solve.default peforming Competing risk regression

Ravi Varadhan rvaradhan at jhmi.edu
Tue Oct 27 14:26:47 CET 2009


Please send reproducible code when you report problems.

I am unable to reproduce your problem.  It seems to work just fine. 

> dat <- read.table("e:/temp/crrdata.txt", sep="\t", header=TRUE)

> names(dat)
[1] "x1"      "x2"      "fstatus" "ftime"  

> dim(dat)
[1] 198   4

> cov=cbind(dat$x1,dat$x2)

> z <- crr(dat$ftime, dat$fstatus, cov)

> z
convergence:  TRUE 
coefficients:
[1]  0.360900 -0.002484
standard errors:
[1] 0.23180 0.03413
two-sided p-values:
[1] 0.12 0.94
> 

So, what is your problem?

Also, make sure that you understand what you are doing with competing risks analysis.  It seems like you do not have any censoring, i.e. all the subjects are failing from one of three causes.  Read the documentation of ?crr carefully.

Ravi.
____________________________________________________________________

Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

Ph. (410) 502-2619
email: rvaradhan at jhmi.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: kende jan <kendejan at yahoo.fr>
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:31 am
Subject: [R] Error in solve.default peforming Competing risk regression
To: R forum <r-help at r-project.org>


> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to use the crr function in the cmprsk
> package version 2.2 to analyse 198 observations.I have receive the
> error in solve.default.
> Can anyone give me some
> insights into where the problem is? 
> Thanks 
> 
> 
> here is my script :
> 
> 
> cov=cbind(x1,x2)
> z<-crr(ftime,fstatus,cov))
> 
> and data file:
> 
> x1    x2    fstatus    ftime
> 0    .02    1    263
> 0    .03    1    113
> 0    .03    1    523
> 0    .03    3    49
> 0    .03    1    278
> 0    .03    1    190
> 0    .04    1    472
> 0    .04    1    357
> 0    .04    1    219
> 0    .0429    3    49
> 0    .05    1    207
> 0    .05    1    166
> 0    .06    3    55
> 0    .06    2    17
> 0    .07    1    264
> 0    .07    2    67
> 0    .07    3    37
> 0    .08    2    190
> 0    .08    3    72
> 0    .08    2    36
> 0    .08    1    96
> 0    .09    2    136
> 0    .09768    1    273
> 0    .1    1    167
> 0    .1    2    76
> 0    .1    3    107
> 0    .1    3    71
> 0    .1    1    116
> 0    .11    2    62
> 0    .11    1    256
> 0    .11    1    385
> 0    .11    1    266
> 0    .11    1    174
> 0    .11    3    334
> 0    .12    3    270
> 0    .12    1    49
> 0    .12    1    733
> 0    .13    1    271
> 0    .13    2    160
> 0    .13    1    105
> 0    .14    2    56
> 0    .14    2    49
> 0    .15    1    266
> 0    .15    1    46
> 0    .15    1    112
> 0    .15    1    246
> 0    .16    1    371
> 0    .16    1    140
> 0    .16    1    279
> 0    .16    1    174
> 0    .1617    1    80
> 0    .17    1    73
> 0    .17    3    54
> 0    .17    1    320
> 0    .17    1    213
> 0    .18    1    215
> 0    .18    1    282
> 0    .18    1    263
> 0    .18    3    99
> 0    .2    1    266
> 0    .2    1    59
> 0    .20976    1    1659
> 0    .21    1    111
> 0    .21    1    62
> 0    .22    1    386
> 0    .24    1    249
> 0    .24    2    79
> 0    .26    1    199
> 0    .26    1    95
> 0    .26    1    270
> 0    .26    1    189
> 0    .26706    3    21
> 0    .27    1    83
> 0    .27    1    45
> 0    .29    1    154
> 0    .29    1    221
> 0    .29    1    174
> 0    .2924    1    112
> 0    .3    1    208
> 0    .3    2    31
> 0    .32    1    82
> 0    .33    2    152
> 1    .34    1    595
> 0    .37    1    182
> 0    .38    1    231
> 0    .38    1    282
> 1    .38    1    60
> 0    .42    1    181
> 0    .44    1    103
> 0    .45    3    251
> 0    .45    2    176
> 0    .47    1    234
> 0    .49    3    26
> 1    .53    1    42
> 0    .555    1    152
> 0    .56    1    229
> 1    .57    1    179
> 0    .58    1    89
> 0    .62187    3    61
> 0    .66    3    32
> 1    .69    1    14
> 1    .69    1    71
> 0    .7594    1    90
> 1    .9462    3    91
> 0    .95    1    138
> 1    .969    1    91
> 1    1.1    3    129
> 0    1.17    1    145
> 1    1.26    1    46
> 1    1.36    1    187
> 0    1.36    1    74
> 1    1.48    1    69
> 0    1.6    1    102
> 1    1.6    2    174
> 1    1.9    2    103
> 1    1.9    1    152
> 1    2.1    1    159
> 1    2.16    1    238
> 1    2.20    1    140
> 0    2.23    1    124
> 1    2.42    1    61
> 1    2.45    1    283
> 1    2.47    1    42
> 1    2.58    2    291
> 1    2.59    1    182
> 1    2.73    3    28
> 1    2.73    1    459
> 1    3.007    1    179
> 1    3.04    1    52
> 1    3.167    3    85
> 1    3.245    1    559
> 1    3.25    1    320
> 1    3.233    1    482
> 1    3.275    1    82
> 1    3.3714    1    982
> 1    3.3652    1    42
> 1    3.41    1    184
> 1    3.4833    1    87
> 1    3.5324    1    31
> 1    3.5818    1    374
> 1    3.629    1    49
> 1    3.6368    1    297
> 1    3.7    1    93
> 1    3.78    1    364
> 1    3.884    1    56
> 1    3.88    1    66
> 1    3.891    1    60
> 1    3.936    1    205
> 1    4.042    1    61
> 1    4.38    2    99
> 1    4.392    1    311
> 1    4.411    2    57
> 1    4.48    1    97
> 1    4.5    3    176
> 1    4.510    1    94
> 1    4.572    1    568
> 1    4.6    1    96
> 1    4.664    1    59
> 1    4.825    1    36
> 1    5.15    1    459
> 1    5.185    2    111
> 1    5.333    1    58
> 1    5.32    1    77
> 1    5.348    3    38
> 1    5.473    2    77
> 1    5.544    1    453
> 1    5.733    1    363
> 1    5.866    1    32
> 1    5.9    1    57
> 1    5.94    1    1870
> 1    6    1    28
> 1    6.09    1    53
> 1    6.302    1    23
> 1    6.667    1    196
> 1    6.647    2    45
> 1    6.727    1    132
> 1    6.304    3    39
> 1    6.746    1    61
> 1    6.786    1    50
> 1    7    1    25
> 1    7.044   1    252
> 1    7.164    2    42
> 1    7.690    3    134
> 1    7.802    1    80
> 1    8.398    1    133
> 1    8.666    1    32
> 1    8.687    3    41
> 1    8.794    1    29
> 1    8.887    1    93
> 1    9.172    3    48
> 1    9.796    1    275
> 1    11.36    1    230
> 1    11.56    1    47
> 1    12.12    1    75
> 1    12.14    2    168
> 1    12.41    1    318
> 1    16.50    1    67
> 1    17.21    1    510
> 
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