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The number to pay attention to in linear regression is the correlation coefficient. In the resulting table, it's listed as "r2" since it's the square of the correlation coefficient.

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In the analysis of censored failure time observations, the standard Cox proportional hazards model assumes that the regression coefficients are time invariant. Often, these parameters vary over time, ...