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Re: st: stset when all reach an endpoint


From   Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: stset when all reach an endpoint
Date   Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:25:43 -0700 (PDT)

--- "Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I must be missing something.  I seem to be reading
> these emails as saying
> you can't estimate a survival model if everyone has
> an event.  I believe
> that you can without difficulty.  Just use the stset
> and all people will
> have a known duration of unemployment. There just
> won't be any censoring.

No Peter, I think you misunderstood. All the
observations are censored. There are no "failure"
times.

Best,
Ricardo.


=====
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician 
Oklahoma City, OK

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