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Re: st: Survival between groups


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Survival between groups
Date   Fri, 22 May 2009 09:23:30 +0000 (GMT)

--- On Fri, 22/5/09, Hugh Robinson wrote:
> I have two groups followed across different time
> periods.  I would like to test for a difference in 
> survival between groups. 
> It is my understanding that sts test will not work
> because the survival curves are for different
> periods (observed and expected events are exact and
> therefore p=1.0).  

As long as you used -stset- correctly the period 
should not matter and you should just be able to use
-st test-. All that matters is the time till a certain
event, that the initial time is different for different
groups (this is how I read "the curves are for 
different periods") is irrelevant, you just need to 
make sure that Stata knows which starting time to use
for which observation (this is what I mean with "use 
-stset- correctly").

Hope this helps,
Maarten

-- 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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