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st: RE: survival data analysis- recode survival time variable


From   "Kieran McCaul" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: survival data analysis- recode survival time variable
Date   Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:58:16 +0800

...

Also note, if you are doing a survival analysis where time is measured
in months, this may increase the proportion of tied failure times.  If
you are intending to use Cox proportional hazards regression for your
analysis, these ties need to be broken and the default method used is
Breslow's which may not be quite accurate if the proportion of ties is
large.  So you should check out the other options available in -stcox-:
Efron's Method or the exact methods. 

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WA Centre for Health & Ageing (M573)
University of Western Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Johannes
Schoder
Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2009 4:57 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: survival data analysis- recode survival time variable

Hi,

I am working with survival data and have the problem that my variable 
survival time is in the following format:
yymm, where y represents years and m months. Instead of the yymm format 
I just want to have it in months since otherwise I always have the jump 
from 11 months (0011) to 1 year (0100).

Thank you very much for your help!
Johannes
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