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Re: st: interpreting output in survival analysis
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"Yusvita Triwiadhian S." <[email protected]>
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Re: st: interpreting output in survival analysis
Date
Mon, 30 May 2011 22:41:04 +0700
thank you very much. it's very helpful for me. if i want to take cox
with frailty, can i use stata?
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Yusvita Triwiadhian S. wrote:
>> i have a problem to interpret output of survival analysis specially
>> output of gompertz regression gamma frailty..
>>
>> t | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z|
>> [95% Conf. Interval]
>> gamma | .0007606 . 0011992 0.63 0.526 -.0015898 .003111
>>
>> please let me know, what it means of gamma and how about if p-value of
>> gamma >0.5?
>
> The parameter gamma is part of the Gompertz model, and confusingly not
> of the gamma frailty sub-model. If the gamma equals 0, the Gompertz
> distribution is equal to the exponential distribution. In other words,
> in that case the baseline hazard does not change over time. In your
> case the gamma is very small and the statistical test clearly
> indicates that the hypothesis that gamma equals 0 cannot be rejected,
> so I would conclude that the baseline hazard is constant.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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