> From: "Maryah Fram" <[email protected]>
>
> Hi -- I'm a new stata user, and trying to do an analysis in stata
> for which I have syntax in R, as follows:
> coxph(Surv(DUR,UNC)~B+J+Q16+strata(STRT)+cluster(ID)).
> I'm looking at transitions between unemployment and work status
> during a two-year study, where DUR is time between transitions, UNC
indicates final status is censored, B, J and Q16 are covariates, ID is
the individual's id number, and STRT is a 4-level stratification
> variable indicating the type of transition (job to job, no job to
job, etc.). I can't figure out how to handle the STRT in Stata. Could
someone point me to the correct place in the manual? Or give any advice?
> Thanks, Maryah
Your use of strata in R is somewhat different to what is envisaged in
R; examples generally relate to (say) sex and agegroup where you fit a
different baseline hazard for each such group (eg in famous books by
Fox, Venables). You seem to be attempting a shortcut to avoid setting
up a series of different models? This is potentially hazardous (excuse
the pun) if you have in your dataset different variables of relevance
only to some states (eg working hours, pay rate if working, type of
benefit if not working - as would be typical). So even in R I would
set up different variables for each transition possibility than rely on
the strata option to do the work for you in this way - after all it
sounds like only two models (job to no job, no job to job) once the
censoring var is set properly.
In stata I think you will need to set up separate models for each
initial state of interest, and indicate the codes for transitions in a
separate variable. Start with -stset- in the st manual!
Hope that helps -
Steve McKay
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