Introduction

Survival functions for DataSHIELD. These are server side functions for survival models and Cox models.

This is a standalone bolt on package for survival analysis in DataSHIELD.

• The client side package is called dsSurvivalClient:

  • https://github.com/neelsoumya/dsSurvivalClient

Installation

install.packages('devtools')
	
library(devtools)
	
devtools::install_github('neelsoumya/dsBaseClient')
   
devtools::install_github('neelsoumya/dsSurvivalClient')
		    

Usage

A tutorial in bookdown format is available here:

https://neelsoumya.github.io/dsSurvival_bookdown/

The meta-analyzed hazard ratios from a survival model are shown below.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the help and support of the DataSHIELD technical team. We are especially grateful to Paul Burton, Demetris Avraam, Stuart Wheater, Patricia Ryser-Welch and Wolfgang Vichtbauer for fruitful discussions and feedback.

Support or Contact

• Soumya Banerjee, Demetris Avraam, Paul Burton, Xavier Escriba, Juan Gonzalez and Tom R P Bishop

• sb2333@cam.ac.uk

• DataSHIELD

  • https://www.datashield.ac.uk