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From: urrutia@usal.es
Subject: Survival6.1.4c Update
			
Survival allows the user to easily estimate survival functions from 
censored data and to assess the relationship between survival and a set of both 
continuous and categorical variables, known as covariates or prognostic factors. 
Version 6.1.4c includes survival regression analysis with Exponential, Weibull,
Log-Normal models and survival analysis with the multivariate non parametric
Competing Risks Model. 
Survival has been tested with native 6800(Mac Quadra 900),Power Macintosh(7600/132)
machines with no problems at all. It has also been succesfully tested on iMacs
with the G4 processor and with MAC OSX 10.3 running Classic System 9.2 in 
emulation mode. For PC users, it has been succesfully compiled and tested
in a Pentium IV 1.7 GH with Windows XP using the public domain program BasiliskII
(we recommend the use of the FPU version of Survival included in the pack and setting the
emulation mode for a Mac Quadra 950 and the '6881 or 68040 FPU emulation enabled' 
checked. 
I've also received reports that it runs fine with the commercial program Executor(c)
from ARDI. 
Main features of Survival include:
-Cox's regression analysis with both fixed and time dependent covariates.
-Survival regression analysis with Exponential, Weibull and Log-Normal
 parametric Models.
-Non parametric survival analysis with Competing Risks.
-A Text Editor with all the possibilities of edition found in commercial modules
-A Macro Option which permits the on-line transformation of data and the on-line
 computation of the value of Time Dependent covariates. It also includes different
 statistical macros to compute descriptive statistics, to perform chi-square
 and Student T-Tests and to estimate exact probabilities for the Normal, F,
 Student and Chi-Square distributions.
-Internal transformation of categorical variables into Indicator Contrast or
 Deviation Contrast Variables.
-Graph plots for all functions and bivariate scatter plots for variables in the
 active Data Array, which may be saved as Pict files or Printed.
-A powerfull macro-language for the on-line transformation of the DataArray in
 memory and to perform fully automated Survival Analysis. 
-A survival chart option to estimate the probability of survival for a given
 individual as a function of an user-defined covariate pattern. 
-Now the full manual is included in a Help file which is accessed with the Help
 item from the Apple Menu. If you press the option key down the macro commands
 help is displayed.
To see the latest changes that might not be included in the help window, please
read the file named 'SurvivalLastChanges.txt'
In this release, an extensive tutorial about the foundations and practical application
of survival analysis in both English and Spanish languages is included.
SURVIVAL IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND UNDER NO CIRCUNSTANCES MAY BE COMMERCIALIZED
Author:
Manuel Urrutia Avisrror MD, PhD
Professor of Urology
University of Salamanca - Spain
urrutia@usal.es