At a distinct event time, the Schoenfeld function is the event subject's covariate minus the hazard-weighted covariate mean over the risk set, as a function of a trial coefficient . Its evaluation at the fitted coefficient is a Schoenfeld residual. The sum of these functions is the Cox partial likelihood score function, and each is conditionally centered at zero at the true proportional-hazards coefficient.
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