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Do all accelerated failure time models satisfy the proportional hazards assumption?

Suppose we are given  chess players participating in a chess tournament, and suppose for the sake of simplicity that  is a power of 2. The tournament goes through several rounds, where, in the first round, all players are participating in some chess game, and only the winners of round 1 move on to round 2 where they are paired again and conduct new games. The winners of round 2 move onto round 3, and so on until only two players remain for one final game. Thus, in each round, half the participants are eliminated until there is one left. We wish to determine who the best player is and who the second best player is. The best player  is the player who loses no games. The second best player  is among the players who only lose a single game (to the best player). (i) Determine a tight asymptotic bound on the number of chess games necessary to determine the best player . For each option, select if it is true or false. 1)

Which is the equation for the parameterization in the Cox proportional hazards model? A)

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Consider a collection of possibly right-censored individuals whose failure times are independent and identically distributed. Assume we want to estimate a single parameter,

What type of plot do we generate from Cox-Snell residuals?

Consider a Cox proportional hazards model with Surv(Time, Status) ~ Age + Sex + BMI*Rx Assume we fit two versions of the model. The first uses the raw values for Age and BMI while the second uses centered values for both. Assume the average age is 50 years old and the average BMI is 25. When comparing the two models, indicate whether the numerical values of the following will be equal or not equal. Age main effect [age] BMI main effect [bmi] Sex main effect [sex] Rx main effect [rx] BMI & Rx interaction [interaction] Model predictions for a specific individual [prediction]

We usually report the rate ratio when interpreting the effect of a covariate on survival time in an AFT model. How is the rate ratio expressed in terms of model coefficients? A)

The incidence rate is most appropriate when the hazard function is constant over time. To which distribution does this correspond?

Suppose a log-rank test is performed to compare survival outcomes in 4 groups. What are the degrees of freedom of the chi-square test that is performed?