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RE: st: RE: Arranging dataset for KM survival rate


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: Arranging dataset for KM survival rate
Date   Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:13:59 -0000

As others have implied, you should not -drop- such observations as they
contain information. 

Ziad El-Khatib

But what to do if patients have been censored, i.e. they had event==0
at last observation?

On Jan 23, 2008 1:21 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Without knowing this is biostatistically sensible for your problem,
>
> . keep if event == 1
>
> is one Stata answer for your question.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ziad
> El-Khatib
> Sent: 23 January 2008 20:59
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Arranging dataset for KM survival rate
>
> Hey again
> I am trying to arrange my dataset to keep one record that has the
> failure event or censor data per patient.
> Any tips about command how to delete the other records prior to
> failure/censor record per patient?
>
> For example
>
> Record nbre       ID            Time        Event
> 1                      1001           1              0
> 2                      1001           2              0
> 3                      1001           3              1
> 4                      1002           1              0
> 5                      1002           2              1
>
>
> How to be able to take away lines 1,2 and 4?

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