Dear Maarten,
Thank you very much for your tips as well as the links.
Regards,
Nishant
--- Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nishant
> In your case I'd look at AICs and BICs since you want to
> compare non-nested
> models. -estout- will allows the options aic and bic,
> even if these statistics
> aren't "ereturned". However I wouldn't rely only on one
> statistic (or two pretty
> similar statistics) to choose between models. For
> instance for -stcox- and
> some of the -streg- models you'll want to check the
> proportional hazard
> assumption. Also for -streg- you will probably want to
> check whether you have
> used the right model. A very short overview of some
> methods that could help
> you choose a model in -streg- can be found on page 13 of
> my introduction to
> survival analysis text.
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/wp/survival.html . Also see
> the excellent book by Mario Cleves, William W. Gould, and
> Roberto Gutierrez
> "An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata,
> Revised Edition" from
> Stata Press 2004. You can get this book from the Stata
> bookstore
> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/saus.html
>
> HTH,
> Maarten
>
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>
> --- Nishant Dass wrote:
> > I want to estimate a hazard-rate model and I would
> like to
> > compare estimates from -streg- with those from -stcox-,
> > however, I am puzzled as to why -streg- and -stcox-
> report
> > different statistics for the overall fit of the model
> (I
> > used -ereturn list to check this).
>
>
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