Customizing the Kaplan-Meier Survival Plot

Begin by including the macros that you copied in the section The Modularized Templates.

The following steps modify the line thickness for the step functions in the survival plot:

%ProvideSurvivalMacros

%let StepOpts = lineattrs=(thickness=2.5);

%CompileSurvivalTemplates

proc lifetest data=sashelp.BMT plots=survival(cb=hw test);
   time T * Status(0);
   strata Group;
run;

The results are displayed in Figure 23.

Figure 23: Changing Line Thickness

By default, the StepOpts macro variable is null.