--- On Tue, 5/5/09, Ceilidh Stapelkamp wrote:
> Can anyone provide some guidance on how to perform a
> conditional survival analysis using STATA for patients in
> a cancer registry who enter the sample on their date of
> diagnosis. During the 10 year follow up, where date of
> death is not available we assume survival. I would like
> to see how probability of survival changes for different
> categories of patients (age, stage, treatment received) if
> they survive 1 year after diagnosis, then 2 years after,
> then 3 etc.
This is an excelent book, both on suvival analysis and on how
to do it in Stata:
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/saus.html
Stephen Jenkins has a lot of material on the website of his
course on survival analysis with Stata:
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/iser/teaching/module-ec968
ATS is a good site too:
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/seminars/stata_survival/default.htm
Finally I wrote a short introduction on Survival Analysis:
http://www.soziologie.uni-tuebingen.de/Institut/MitarbInst/Buis/downloads/Working_papers/survival_html.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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