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st: Re: st stset Command


From   "Stephen P. Jenkins" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: st stset Command
Date   Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:57:55 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Davood Souri <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>  Dear Stata listers
>  
>  I have a sample from a pool of unemployed labors
>  with  their unemployment durations, in other words
> all observations are  right censored. I don't know to
> use stset command to introduce my data set to Stata.
> would you help me?

I don't think the real issue is to do with -stset-, but with your data. 
If you have no 'failures' in your data, then how can you estimate a 
hazard regression model? You have no information in the data about 
completed spell lengths.


Stephen
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Professor Stephen P. Jenkins <[email protected]>
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1206 873374. Fax: +44 (0)1206 873151.
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk

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