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Re: st: constant term


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: constant term
Date   Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:08:11 +0100 (BST)

The whole point of -stpiece- is that the baseline hazard (the constant)
changes over time. This is parameterized in such a way that the
constant in the first period is the coefficient of tp1, in the second
period the coefficient of tp2, etc.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

--- Chiara Mussida <[email protected]> wrote:
> is there a way to make stata show the coef for the constant term in a
> piecewise constant hazard model: command stpiece??
> i really need to get this value sonce it could give me insights on my
> omitted (or base) category!



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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

visiting address:
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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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