st: Fwd: Disagreement among Proportional Hazards Assumption Tests

[Shervin Shirvani <shervin.shirvani@gmail.com>]

Hi Statalisters,

I wondered if there was a situation wherein survival curves cross and
yet the proportional hazards assumption still holds (or at least does
not require any sort of correction).

I am conducting a retrospective analysis wherein my treatment and
unexposed groups both have fairly shallow survival curves that cross
about half-way along the x-axis.

As it happens, analytic tests for the proportional hazards assumption
(i.e., including a time-varying covariate, Schoenfeld residuals using
estat phtest, etc) do not yield a significant result.

Are the initial results (i.e. without adjustment for the curves
crossing) reportable as they are?

Thanks!
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