--- On Fri, 17/7/09, Bradley, Steve wrote:
> I am having trouble with the time varying variable using
> -tv( )-. For some reason it only gives me two varying
> with time piece outputs when I would expect it with all
> the time pieces.
>
> Here is my code
>
> stpiece control, tp ( 1 2 to 11) nopre tv(iv ) nohr
<snip>
-stpiece is not an official Stata command, but a user
written command (by Jesper B. Sorensen). I downloaded
it from SSC (by typing in Stata -ssc install stpiece-)
and got version 1.0, November 20 1999. You can check
your version by typing in Stata -which stpiece-. My
version works as expected, as can be seen in the
example below, so it is hard for me to figure out
why your version of -stpiece- is giving this behavior.
Maybe you can recreate this problem using the
example files present in Stata, so we can see what
is going on, or you can contact the author of
-stpiece-, who I think moved to Stanford (just
google to find him).
-- Maarten
*--------------- begin example ---------------
sysuse cancer, clear
gen long id = _n
stset studytime, failure(died) id(id)
xi: stpiece i.drug , tp(5 10 20) tv(age)
*---------------- end example ----------------
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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