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Re: st: Relationship of Nelson-Aalen and Kaplan-Meier


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Relationship of Nelson-Aalen and Kaplan-Meier
Date   Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:36:45 +0100 (BST)

These are discussed in the methods and formulas section of the manual
entry on -sts-. Anyhow, you can let Stata do the computations by typing
-sts list-.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

--- Hugh Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how to calculate the variance of a Kaplan-Meier
> survival estimate derived from the Nelson-Aalen hazard function?
>  
> For instance, Stata provides a Standard Error of 0.08 for a
> cumulative
> NA hazard of 0.22.  The hazard function is easily converted to the
> Kaplan-Meier equivalent  as S= exp(-H).  In this case the equivalent
> Kaplan-Meier S = exp(-0.22)=0.80.  However I am unclear as how to
> calculate the equivalent variance.  According to Cleves et al, Stata
> uses the Greenwood method to calculate standard error for
> Kaplan-Meier
> estimates.  A second source suggests that variance should be the same
> for both and calculated as the sum of (# of events/# at risk) for
> each
> time step.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> HR
> 
> 
> Hugh S Robinson Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Wildlife Biology Program
> College of Forestry and Conservation
> University of Montana
> Missoula, MT 59802
> (406) 243-4128
> 
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