Thanks
for illuminating the topic further. I hope competing risks software will be compiled
so that the wish list will move into an "achieved" list.
I tried
to run –stpepemori-, but encountered a difficulty in regard of the instruction
not to use identical value for varname and compet. I could be missing something?
Obtaining
the preliminary new version of –strs- will be gratefully appreciated!
Best,
UG
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On Behalf Of Enzo Coviello
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: cumulative probabilities under competing risks with covariate
adjustment
Dear Uri
Goldgerg,
thanks
for using -stcompet-
>Do you know of any plan to advance this matter?
>This has enormous importance in analysis of the
>old cohort studies where long-term follow up of
>mortality and/or the incidence of dementia have
>been instituted and relating them to mid-life levels of risk
factors is sought.
>
At the
last Italian Stata Meeting prof. Bill
Gould
said that the competing risks matter is in
the "wish"
(or "doing") list of the Stata Corporation.
Since
this is a public mail I believe that prof
Gutierrez
or Gould could directly give a more precise reply.
The -rsource-
command, written by R. Newson,
allows to
run R from within Stata. So, in the
meanwhile
you could use the -cmprsk- R-package
from
within Stata and import the results.
As
further Stata opportunities in competing
risks, even
if not directly addressing our
problem, there
is -stpepemori- available on the
SSC
archive, testing the equality of two
cumulative
incidence functions, and new codes of
-strs- (a command estimating relative survival)
that
allows to compute cumulative incidence
without
knowing the cause of death, making use of
the
expected probabilities of death. This new
version
of -strs- is not yet available on the web
but I can
send on request the preliminary version.
Best
wishes.
Enzo
Enzo
Coviello
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Epidemiologia e Statistica ASL BARI
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