Beschreibung:
An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata, Revised Third Edition is the ideal tutorial for professional data analysts who want to learn survival analysis for the first time or who are well versed in survival analysis but are not as dexterous in using Stata to analyze survival data. This text also serves as a valuable reference to those readers who already have experience using Statäs survival analysis routines.
The problem of survival analysis. Describing the distribution of failure times. Hazard models. Censoring and truncation. Recording survival data. Using stset. After stet. Nonparametric analysis. Using stcox. Model building using stcox. The Cox model: Diagnostics. Parametric models. The exponential model. Postestimation commands for parametric models. Generalizing the parametric regression model. Power and sample-size determination for survival analysis. Competing risks.