--- uri goldbourt <[email protected]> wrote:
> In an epidemiological study where we follow up very old individuals
> the importance of time till event (say, mortality) pales in
> comparison to the actual age of the individual when the endpoint
> event occurred. <snip> What is the accurate way to stset the data so
> that age at event(assuming of course it is included for each event)
> become the time variable?
Setting time is the easy part of your analysis: The age is nothing
other than the time elapsed since birth. In your case the problem is
left censoring: People could have experienced the event before entering
the study. As a consequence you have ended up with a selected sample
where the weaklings have already been weeded out. I have never done a
study where I had to deal with left censoring, so I don't remember if
Stata can do anything about that and my books are at the office.
-- Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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