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Re: st: comparing -ltable- and -sts list-


From   Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: comparing -ltable- and -sts list-
Date   Sun, 2 Nov 2008 21:25:30 -0800

Thank you Philip for the very helpful explanation.
Michael


Michael


I think that to perform a test *at a particular time*, as opposed to an overall (logrank style) test, using the K-M estimator you need to

(i) estimate the S(t) and the Greenwood variance for each group at the chosen time
(ii) perform a z test


Step (i) can be done by sts list:

. sts list , by(drug) at(0,2)

         failure _d:  died
   analysis time _t:  studytime

              Beg.                      Survivor      Std.
Time Total Fail Function Error [95% Conf. Int.]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
drug=1
       0         0        0              1.0000         .          .         .
       2        18        3              0.8500    0.0798     0.6038    0.9490
drug=2
       0         0        0              1.0000         .          .         .
       2         0        0              1.0000         .          .         .
drug=3
       0         0        0              1.0000         .          .         .
       2         0        0              1.0000         .          .         .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Note the syntax of the -at()- option. Had I just put -at(2)- Stata would have given me its 2 chosen times, not necessarily t=2. (Try it and see!)

Then you can retrieve S(t=2) for each of the two groups of interest and the SEs and thus calculate the Greenwood estimate of the variance of the difference in S(t). The z test follows...

Step (ii):

    z = (S1(t=2) - S2(t=2)) /  [  sqrt(Var(S1(t=2) + Var(S2(t=2))]

where Var(S(t=2) is the square of the SE for the respective group at the desired time.

whence you can use the -normal()- function to get your P value.


Doesn't look like your particular data (at t=2) will support this test - we only get an estimate for drug=1. But the above is the general idea. Someone else may know of a more direct way.

Phil

At 11:33 AM 3/11/2008, you wrote:
Thanks Phil.

Is there a way to use -sts list- to statistically compare the 2-year survival rates between two groups? I notice that the -compare- option simply places them next to each other without a statistical test.

Michael

Michael

use the   -noadjust-   option  on  -ltable-

from -help ltable- :

noadjust suppresses the actuarial adjustment for deaths and censored observations. The default is to consider the adjusted number at risk at the start of the interval to be total at the start minus (the number dead or censored)/2. If noadjust is specified, the number at risk is simply the total at the start, corresponding to the standard Kaplan-Meier assumption. noadjust should be specified when using ltable to list results corresponding to those
        produced by sts list.


Phil


At 09:51 AM 3/11/2008, you wrote:
Dear Statalist members,
I had the impression that both -ltable- and -sts list- would list the survivor function per failure period. However, they give slightly different answers. In the example below, for drug3 -ltable- shows survival at 24 months as 77.14%, whereas -sts list- says it's 64.29%

sysuse cancer.dta, clear
sts list, by(drug)
ltable _t died, by(drug)

Could anyone help me to clarify this?

--

Best wishes,
Michael McCulloch



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