st: clogit with multiple cases

["Tomas Lind" <tomas.lind@ki.se>]

Dear Statalisters,


Model 1 has 52 cases in stratum 1 with exposure 11 and 3 controls with
exposure 8, 9 and 10. Stratum 2 has 63 cases etc.

Model 2 is similar but here I use a weight (to "repeat" each stratum
"weight" number of times).


Conditional logistic regression with -clogit- handles stratum with a
different numbers of cases and controls. However, model 1 below does not
work, bur model 2 works fine. Why? (I am using Stata 10.)


-------------------
 Model 1
-------------------

id   death	  expo
1     52	   11
1      0      8
1      0      9
1      0      10
2     63      14
2      0      8
2      0      4
2      0      11

etc etc (lots of stratum)


clogit death expo , group(id)



--------------------------
Model 2
--------------------------

id   death	  expo   weight
1      1	   11	52
1      0      8	52
1      0      9	52
1      0      10	52
2      1      14	63
2      0      8	63
2      0      4	63
2      0      11	63

etc etc (lots of stratum)


clogit death expo  [fw=weight] , group(id)



/Tomas


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