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Competing risks

Stata has specific features for fitting competing-risks regression models using the method of proportional subhazards. Stata’s estimator allows for time-varying covariates, can produce cumulative incidence graphs, and can work with multiple-imputation datasets.

Explore Stata 12’s resources on competing risks:

Overview of competing-risks features in Stata

List of competing risk and other survival analysis features

Announcement of competing-risks features in the Stata News (see page 4)

Introduction to competing risks with examples (from the Stata manual)

See Stata’s dialog box for stcrreg

FAQ about estimating competing risks using Cox proportional hazards estimation (an alternate estimator)

Stata Journal articles

“Cumulative incidence estimation in presence of competing risks” by Vincenzo Coviello and May Boggess (abstract) (full article)

“G-estimation of causal effects, allowing for time-varying confounding” by Jonathan A. C. Sterne and Kate Tilling (abstract) (full article)

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