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Re: st: FW: stcrreg: when the proportional hazards assumption fails


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: FW: stcrreg: when the proportional hazards assumption fails
Date   Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:13:45 -0400

-
Zoe-

Ah, I see what you mean. The tvc() coefficients provide evidence of
non-proportionality, but might not provide the correct model. With
regular Cox, we'd stratify by categories of the offending variable, as
you say, but that's not available here. -stcompadj- (from SSC) also
does not provide a stratified analysis.

One possibility: run the model in the two (three?) subgroups of your
ordinal variable that violate proportionality. Compare the separate
cumulative incidence curves to that predicted by -stcrreg- or
-stcompadj-. Perhaps they are close, and you have a good model after
all.

Otherwise, store the estimates of coefficients of the variables common
to all the models and compute weighted averages, weighting by the
inverses of the estimated variances.  I know this is easier said than
done!

Steve

Steven J. Samuels
[email protected]
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Saugerties NY 12477
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Zoe:
>
> I don't see that you have a problem. You seem to have a fairly
> complete model if you include the ordinal variable with the tvc() and
> texp() commands, perhaps omitting the non-significant indicator. As
> the Stata 11 Manual states on p 214, it is the coefficients which are
> time varying.
>
> One issue: a three-level variable would have only two indicators, not
> three. Showing your code and results, as the FAQ request, would really
> help avoid this kind of misunderstanding.
>
> Steve
>
> Steven J. Samuels
> [email protected]
> 18 Cantine's Island
> Saugerties NY 12477
> USA
> Voice: 845-246-0774
> Fax:    206-202-4783
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Zoe Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am wondering what options are available when the proportional hazards assumption doesn't hold in a competing-risks regression.  The assumption holds for my main independent variable of interest, but not for another (ordinal) variable that I'd like to adjust for; fitting it as a time-varying covariate gives a significant result for 2 of its 3 levels.
>>
>> I could get around this by stratifying by this variable in a standard Cox model, but this doesn't seem to be supported (yet) by stcrreg.
>>
>> Are there any alternatives?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Zoe.
>>
>>
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