By saying that it won't work do you mean? that the stset command would give me an error?
Because I am doing it and it does set the data.
In my dataset I have admission as well as discharge/death date per observation
In Statas manual the stset takes the form of:
stset failuretime, failure(mortality==1) id(id) enter =(admissiontime)
so why it would not work if my dataset as I showed an example earlier has unique observations that have the admission date as well as the discharge/death date?
thanks
Neo
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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 29 January 2013 15:45
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: stset
No; that won't work. You don't have a single time variable or survival variable. What makes you think that compatible with -stset-?
You need to -reshape- your data.
Nick
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Neophytos Stylianou <neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> I am about to perform some survival analysis and I need to set my dataset in survival data format.
>
> Will the stset command work when data is not in the correct format i.e wide instead of long?
>
> I have a dataset of many variables (550) and observations (60,000) in this format:
> Mortality timeADM timeDisch ID
> Survived Jan2003 Jan2003 1
> Died Feb2004 Mar2004 2
> Survived Jun2006 Aug2006 3
>
> From what is saw in the stset help file as well as Statas manual this will be ok but I am just worried it is not in the long format.
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