Illustration of using the R relsurv package with the colon data

Enoch Yi-Tung Chen, Paul Dickman

This page is a placeholder for R code for calculating the Pohar-Perme estimate of marginal relative survival using the relsurv package applied to the colon data widely used for Stata tutorials on my website. The R code was written by Enoch Yi-Tung Chen, who has written a tutorial comparing the various software implementations.

Code comparing the estimates with four Stata packages (strs, stns, stpp, and stns) is available here.

Paul Dickman
Paul Dickman
Professor of Biostatistics

Biostatistician working with register-based cancer epidemiology.