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Re: st: R: Estimating the probability of censoring


From   Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: R: Estimating the probability of censoring
Date   Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:54:14 -0700

Antoine Terracol made the brilliant suggestion of estimating probability of censoring, based on -stcox- with specifying the baseline hazard option basechazard(). In studying the manual (v9, page 147) section on the Technical Note for Example 7 of -stcox-, I read that specifying the baseline hazard option requires all variables to make sense if they would be equal to zero (which of course would not be the case with a variable such as age). That makes sense to me.

At the bottom of that page, I read that this can be resolved by subtracting mean age from each subject's age. Is this what is referred to as "centering on age"?
Michael



Antoine Terracol wrote:
Michael,

What is calculated here is the survival function at time t conditional on covariates, i.e., in your case, the probability that the subjects time-to-censoring will be greater than t if dying from cancer was not a risk.
Of course, this is because Michael specified

. stset studytime, failure(died==0)

i.e. he is modelling time-to-censoring instead of the usual time-to-failure.

Antoine
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