topic Re: change title and axis names of a survival curve in SAS Procedures

change title and axis names of a survival curve

lmyers2 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:28:28 GMT

Hello,

I'm using sas 9.4. I've been reading how to change the title of a survival plot and x-axis but don't understand how to use the following macro I found. Do I run proc template first, then run this macro? How do I change this macro to get the title to be "Kaplan Meier Plot" and X-axis "Time (weeks)"?

%macro SurvivalTemplate;
%local outside;
proc template;
%do outside = 0 %to 1;
define statgraph Stat.Lifetest.Graphics.ProductLimitSurvival%scan(2,2-&outside);
dynamic NStrata xName plotAtRisk %if %nrbquote(&censored) ne %then plotCensored;
plotCL plotHW plotEP labelCL labelHW labelEP maxTime xtickVals xtickValFitPol
rowWeights method StratumID classAtRisk plotBand plotTest GroupName yMin
Transparency SecondTitle TestName pValue _byline_ _bytitle_ _byfootnote_;
BeginGraph;
if (NSTRATA=1)
if (EXISTS(STRATUMID)) entrytitle &titletext1;
else entrytitle &titletext0;
endif;
%if not &outside %then if (PLOTATRISK);
entrytitle "With Number of Subjects at Risk" / textattrs=GRAPHVALUETEXT;
%if not &outside %then %do; endif; %end;
%AtRiskLatticeStart
layout overlay / xaxisopts=(&xoptions) yaxisopts=(&yoptions);
%singlestratum
endlayout;
%AtRiskLatticeEnd
else
entrytitle &titletext2;
if (EXISTS(SECONDTITLE))
entrytitle SECONDTITLE / textattrs=GRAPHVALUETEXT;
endif;
%AtRiskLatticeStart
layout overlay / xaxisopts=(&xoptions) yaxisopts=(&yoptions);
%multiplestrata
endlayout;
%AtRiskLatticeEnd(%str(class=CLASSATRISK))
endif;
if (_BYTITLE_) entrytitle _BYLINE_ / textattrs=GRAPHVALUETEXT;
else if (_BYFOOTNOTE_) entryfootnote halign=left _BYLINE_; endif;
endif;
EndGraph;
end;
%end;
run;
%mend;

Re: change title and axis names of a survival curve

WarrenKuhfeld — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:18:36 GMT

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=statug&docsetTarget=statug_kaplan_sect015.htm&docsetVersion=14.3&locale=en

Use this chapter instead.

Re: change title and axis names of a survival curve

lmyers2 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:31:36 GMT

Thanks

I'm guessing I'm not running the code right because the title remains "Product-Limit Survival Estimate." I also tried to change the code to make the title of the x-axis title "Time (weeks)." Code is below.

proc template;
   define statgraph Stat.Lifetest.Graphics.ProductLimitSurvival;

%ProvideSurvivalMacros                   
%let TitleText0 = "Kaplan-Meier Plot";    
%let TitleText1 = "Time (weeks)";
%let TitleText2 = &titletext0;
%CompileSurvivalTemplates                

ods graphics on;
proc lifetest data=ecmodata plots=survival (cb=hw atrisk(outside(0.15)));
   time survt * status(0);
run;
ods graphics off;