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tidy.survfit() could use survival:::summary.survfit() new data.frame argument #1237

@ThomasSoeiro

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@ThomasSoeiro

FYI, survival:::summary.survfit() has recently gained a data.frame argument (since therneau/survival@4a5c24e available in {survival} 3.7-0 release on 2024-06-05). tidy.survfit() may probably use that and be simplified once {survival} 3.7-0 is considered old enough.

Note that the standard errors return by survival::survfit() and survival:::summary.survfit() are different:

  • from survival::survfit():

    for a survival curve this contains standard error of the cumulative hazard or -log(survival), for a multi-state curve it contains the standard error of prev.

  • from survival:::summary.survfit():

    the standard error of the survival value.

library(survival)
fit <- survfit(Surv(time, status) ~ x, aml)

x <- broom::tidy(fit)

y <- summary(fit, censored = TRUE, data.frame = TRUE)
y <- y[c(1:5, 7, 10:9, 11)]
y$strata <- as.character(y$strata)

# from https://github.com/cran/survival/blob/36b56a5d8014d3a5ed29fb111303955e3e28f13f/R/summary.survfit.R#L187-L190
y$std.err <- y$std.err / y$surv
y[is.na(y$std.err), "std.err"] <- Inf

all.equal(x, y, check.attributes = FALSE)
# [1] TRUE

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