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Schoenfled Residua test shows proportionality hazard assumptions holds but Kaplan-Meier plots intersect
The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are InInterpreting the Schoenfled testViolation of Cox Proportional Hazards by a continuous variableCheck hazard proportional assuption in a large coxphWhat does the “z” in cox.zph mean in RLate Cross of Kaplan-Meier Curves - Does it matter?time varying coefficients in cox proportional hazard modelHow does time factor into Cox regression or a Cox proportional hazards model?Why are Kaplan-Meier curves crossing when Cox PH assumption is not violated (Global Shoenfeld non-significant)?Cox time-dependent coefficient continues to violate the PH assumptionViolation of proportional hazard assumption with big sample size - how to correct for it?Hazard ratio for more than two groups
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"If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold". The issue I am facing is that I got the Kaplam-Meier plot(bleow). We can clearly see that it is overlapping.
But when I plot the Schoenfled residual plots, it suggests otherwise because the black solid line is flat(image below). Also the p-values(below) for Schoenfled residual plots are not significant, suggesting that proportional hazard assumption holds
ftest <- cox.zph(fitcox)
ftest
p
as.factor(C)2 0.945
as.factor(C)3 0.922
as.factor(C)4 0.717
GLOBAL 0.915
One may argue that the three hazard ratios are calculated w.r.t. the red plot. Red plot does not intersect the blue and black plots. So it is understandable that proportional hazard assumption holds.
But red plot does intersect the green one, although only a little...Is that not enough to violate the proportional hazard assumption?
cox-model kaplan-meier proportional-hazards schoenfeld-residuals
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"If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold". The issue I am facing is that I got the Kaplam-Meier plot(bleow). We can clearly see that it is overlapping.
But when I plot the Schoenfled residual plots, it suggests otherwise because the black solid line is flat(image below). Also the p-values(below) for Schoenfled residual plots are not significant, suggesting that proportional hazard assumption holds
ftest <- cox.zph(fitcox)
ftest
p
as.factor(C)2 0.945
as.factor(C)3 0.922
as.factor(C)4 0.717
GLOBAL 0.915
One may argue that the three hazard ratios are calculated w.r.t. the red plot. Red plot does not intersect the blue and black plots. So it is understandable that proportional hazard assumption holds.
But red plot does intersect the green one, although only a little...Is that not enough to violate the proportional hazard assumption?
cox-model kaplan-meier proportional-hazards schoenfeld-residuals
asked Apr 6 at 13:52
Omar RafiqueOmar Rafique
386
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If you cannot reject the null hypothesis, it does not mean that it is true.
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– Michael M
Apr 6 at 14:46
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This reasoning accounts for the p-value. What about the Schoenfled residual plots being flat....
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– Omar Rafique
Apr 6 at 16:37
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"If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold". The issue I am facing is that I got the Kaplam-Meier plot(bleow). We can clearly see that it is overlapping.
But when I plot the Schoenfled residual plots, it suggests otherwise because the black solid line is flat(image below). Also the p-values(below) for Schoenfled residual plots are not significant, suggesting that proportional hazard assumption holds
ftest <- cox.zph(fitcox)
ftest
p
as.factor(C)2 0.945
as.factor(C)3 0.922
as.factor(C)4 0.717
GLOBAL 0.915
One may argue that the three hazard ratios are calculated w.r.t. the red plot. Red plot does not intersect the blue and black plots. So it is understandable that proportional hazard assumption holds.
But red plot does intersect the green one, although only a little...Is that not enough to violate the proportional hazard assumption?
cox-model kaplan-meier proportional-hazards schoenfeld-residuals
asked Apr 6 at 13:52
Omar RafiqueOmar Rafique
386
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"If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold". The issue I am facing is that I got the Kaplam-Meier plot(bleow). We can clearly see that it is overlapping.
But when I plot the Schoenfled residual plots, it suggests otherwise because the black solid line is flat(image below). Also the p-values(below) for Schoenfled residual plots are not significant, suggesting that proportional hazard assumption holds
ftest <- cox.zph(fitcox)
ftest
p
as.factor(C)2 0.945
as.factor(C)3 0.922
as.factor(C)4 0.717
GLOBAL 0.915
One may argue that the three hazard ratios are calculated w.r.t. the red plot. Red plot does not intersect the blue and black plots. So it is understandable that proportional hazard assumption holds.
But red plot does intersect the green one, although only a little...Is that not enough to violate the proportional hazard assumption?
cox-model kaplan-meier proportional-hazards schoenfeld-residuals
cox-model kaplan-meier proportional-hazards schoenfeld-residuals
asked Apr 6 at 13:52
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If you cannot reject the null hypothesis, it does not mean that it is true.
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– Michael M
Apr 6 at 14:46
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This reasoning accounts for the p-value. What about the Schoenfled residual plots being flat....
$endgroup$
– Omar Rafique
Apr 6 at 16:37
add a comment |
2
$begingroup$
If you cannot reject the null hypothesis, it does not mean that it is true.
$endgroup$
– Michael M
Apr 6 at 14:46
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This reasoning accounts for the p-value. What about the Schoenfled residual plots being flat....
$endgroup$
– Omar Rafique
Apr 6 at 16:37
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If you cannot reject the null hypothesis, it does not mean that it is true.
$endgroup$
– Michael M
Apr 6 at 14:46
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If you cannot reject the null hypothesis, it does not mean that it is true.
$endgroup$
– Michael M
Apr 6 at 14:46
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This reasoning accounts for the p-value. What about the Schoenfled residual plots being flat....
$endgroup$
– Omar Rafique
Apr 6 at 16:37
$begingroup$
This reasoning accounts for the p-value. What about the Schoenfled residual plots being flat....
$endgroup$
– Omar Rafique
Apr 6 at 16:37
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It’s not clear that the overlaps among the K-M curves are so bad. There might be some crossing at very early times and curves come close to each other at some later times but that type of variability might not be inconsistent with proportional hazards.
You will have to use your judgement about the underlying subject matter to decide whether this is close enough to proportional hazards for your purposes. You can’t strictly prove that proportional hazards hold so the judgement is whether there is enough evidence against them to matter for your application.
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You are comparing descriptive data (kaplan meier lines are crossing) with inference test (schoenfeld test) which in case of a not significant test usually seem to contradict because there is usually some descriptive difference. Imagine someone checking for normal distribution: a not significant Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (= inference test) doesn't mean that the QQ plot (= descriptive data) follows perfectly a normal distribution. Same is true for a not significant t-test where means are not exactly the same. And so on. And as always with tests of significance: they depend on sample size.
In this example I would say that the hazards are not perfectly proportional which can be seen in the kaplan meier plots. But this is not a significant violation of the assumption judged by the schoenfeld test. The problem may arise if one strictly follows the scentence you quoted "If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold" which I would question because sometimes there may be "a little" scrossing like here what not means that proportional assumption must be wrong. If this were true there would be no need for a significance test like the schoenfeld test.
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It’s not clear that the overlaps among the K-M curves are so bad. There might be some crossing at very early times and curves come close to each other at some later times but that type of variability might not be inconsistent with proportional hazards.
You will have to use your judgement about the underlying subject matter to decide whether this is close enough to proportional hazards for your purposes. You can’t strictly prove that proportional hazards hold so the judgement is whether there is enough evidence against them to matter for your application.
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It’s not clear that the overlaps among the K-M curves are so bad. There might be some crossing at very early times and curves come close to each other at some later times but that type of variability might not be inconsistent with proportional hazards.
You will have to use your judgement about the underlying subject matter to decide whether this is close enough to proportional hazards for your purposes. You can’t strictly prove that proportional hazards hold so the judgement is whether there is enough evidence against them to matter for your application.
answered Apr 6 at 15:51
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It’s not clear that the overlaps among the K-M curves are so bad. There might be some crossing at very early times and curves come close to each other at some later times but that type of variability might not be inconsistent with proportional hazards.
You will have to use your judgement about the underlying subject matter to decide whether this is close enough to proportional hazards for your purposes. You can’t strictly prove that proportional hazards hold so the judgement is whether there is enough evidence against them to matter for your application.
answered Apr 6 at 15:51
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It’s not clear that the overlaps among the K-M curves are so bad. There might be some crossing at very early times and curves come close to each other at some later times but that type of variability might not be inconsistent with proportional hazards.
You will have to use your judgement about the underlying subject matter to decide whether this is close enough to proportional hazards for your purposes. You can’t strictly prove that proportional hazards hold so the judgement is whether there is enough evidence against them to matter for your application.
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You are comparing descriptive data (kaplan meier lines are crossing) with inference test (schoenfeld test) which in case of a not significant test usually seem to contradict because there is usually some descriptive difference. Imagine someone checking for normal distribution: a not significant Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (= inference test) doesn't mean that the QQ plot (= descriptive data) follows perfectly a normal distribution. Same is true for a not significant t-test where means are not exactly the same. And so on. And as always with tests of significance: they depend on sample size.
In this example I would say that the hazards are not perfectly proportional which can be seen in the kaplan meier plots. But this is not a significant violation of the assumption judged by the schoenfeld test. The problem may arise if one strictly follows the scentence you quoted "If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold" which I would question because sometimes there may be "a little" scrossing like here what not means that proportional assumption must be wrong. If this were true there would be no need for a significance test like the schoenfeld test.
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You are comparing descriptive data (kaplan meier lines are crossing) with inference test (schoenfeld test) which in case of a not significant test usually seem to contradict because there is usually some descriptive difference. Imagine someone checking for normal distribution: a not significant Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (= inference test) doesn't mean that the QQ plot (= descriptive data) follows perfectly a normal distribution. Same is true for a not significant t-test where means are not exactly the same. And so on. And as always with tests of significance: they depend on sample size.
In this example I would say that the hazards are not perfectly proportional which can be seen in the kaplan meier plots. But this is not a significant violation of the assumption judged by the schoenfeld test. The problem may arise if one strictly follows the scentence you quoted "If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold" which I would question because sometimes there may be "a little" scrossing like here what not means that proportional assumption must be wrong. If this were true there would be no need for a significance test like the schoenfeld test.
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You are comparing descriptive data (kaplan meier lines are crossing) with inference test (schoenfeld test) which in case of a not significant test usually seem to contradict because there is usually some descriptive difference. Imagine someone checking for normal distribution: a not significant Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (= inference test) doesn't mean that the QQ plot (= descriptive data) follows perfectly a normal distribution. Same is true for a not significant t-test where means are not exactly the same. And so on. And as always with tests of significance: they depend on sample size.
In this example I would say that the hazards are not perfectly proportional which can be seen in the kaplan meier plots. But this is not a significant violation of the assumption judged by the schoenfeld test. The problem may arise if one strictly follows the scentence you quoted "If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold" which I would question because sometimes there may be "a little" scrossing like here what not means that proportional assumption must be wrong. If this were true there would be no need for a significance test like the schoenfeld test.
answered Apr 6 at 15:37
igoR87igoR87
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You are comparing descriptive data (kaplan meier lines are crossing) with inference test (schoenfeld test) which in case of a not significant test usually seem to contradict because there is usually some descriptive difference. Imagine someone checking for normal distribution: a not significant Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (= inference test) doesn't mean that the QQ plot (= descriptive data) follows perfectly a normal distribution. Same is true for a not significant t-test where means are not exactly the same. And so on. And as always with tests of significance: they depend on sample size.
In this example I would say that the hazards are not perfectly proportional which can be seen in the kaplan meier plots. But this is not a significant violation of the assumption judged by the schoenfeld test. The problem may arise if one strictly follows the scentence you quoted "If Kaplan-Meier plots cross each other then proportional hazard assumption does not hold" which I would question because sometimes there may be "a little" scrossing like here what not means that proportional assumption must be wrong. If this were true there would be no need for a significance test like the schoenfeld test.
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This reasoning accounts for the p-value. What about the Schoenfled residual plots being flat....
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– Omar Rafique
Apr 6 at 16:37