--- Michael Kregar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have run the following cox proportional regression
> How can I obtain an overall probability of the above
> model when using data from say one observation (for
> the four independent variables above). I am looking
> for overall probabilities of failure (not hazard
> rate). Can anyone give me a one by one calculation?
This can be interpreted in two ways:
1) you want to probability of failure as an end result
(at t=infinity). In most parametric models (-streg-)
this is easy: that probability is 1 for everyone. So
called cure models explicitly allow for a given
proportion of observations that will never experience
the event (are "cured"). I am not so sure if a Cox
model makes any statement about what hapens at
t=infinity. I could imagine that it either leaves that
undefined or that it assumes that in the end everybody
dies. I find it implausable that you could derive a
curefraction from a Cox model. For more on cure models
in Stata see (Lambert 2007).
2) A more interesting way to interpret your question
is to assume that you are asking for 1-Survivor
function, i.e. the probability that someone has
died at or before some specific timepoint. You can
compute those as in the example below. More
interestingly (and easy) you can plot them using the
-stcurve- command (see: -help stcurve-).
*--------------- begin example ------------------
sysuse cancer, clear
stset studytime, failure(died)
xi: stcox i.drug age, basesurv(base)
predict double xb, xb
gen S = base^exp(xb)
*---------------- end example -------------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
Lambert, Paul (2007) "Modeling of the cure fraction
in survival studies". The Stata Journal, 7(3), pp.
351-375.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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