Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: stset |
| Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:44:47 +0000 |
No; that won't work. You don't have a single time variable or survival variable. What makes you think that compatible with -stset-? You need to -reshape- your data. Nick On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Neophytos Stylianou <neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > I am about to perform some survival analysis and I need to set my dataset in survival data format. > > Will the stset command work when data is not in the correct format i.e wide instead of long? > > I have a dataset of many variables (550) and observations (60,000) in this format: > Mortality timeADM timeDisch ID > Survived Jan2003 Jan2003 1 > Died Feb2004 Mar2004 2 > Survived Jun2006 Aug2006 3 > > From what is saw in the stset help file as well as Statas manual this will be ok but I am just worried it is not in the long format. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/