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Re: st: Interval censored data in survival analysis


From   IOANNA MARIOU STYLIANOU <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Interval censored data in survival analysis
Date   Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:29:29 -0600

Hi  John,

there is a command "INTCENS" whic u can handle interval censoring. U can download the specific  program from via your STATA version and then use it..


ioanna

----- Original Message -----
From: John Stephenson <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:15 am
Subject: st: Interval censored data in survival analysis
To: [email protected]


> I am attempting to do a parametric survival analysis with interval censored
>  data. However, I don't know if Stata can handle interval censoring. Does
>  anyone know how to do this using Stata? (I am working with release 9)
>  
>  Alternatively, if it is not possible (or easy), two alternatives are:
>  1. find the midpoint of each interval and use that
>  2. assuming that each item of data is interval censored between time 
> T1 and
>  some later time T2, duplicate each item so that the same item appears 
> both
>  as a positive outcome at time T2 and as a right censored outcome at T1.
>  
>  If anyone has any views on the accuracy and applicability of either of
>  these methods I'd be grateful to hear them.
>  
>  Thanks
>  
>  John
>  
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