Dear Shawn,
Enzo Coviello's very handy -stcompet- ado-file will solve your problem if
you need a Kaplan-Meire type analysis.
If you need an equivalent of Cox regression, Stata doen not help you
(yet). Competing risk regression is, however, available for the R
and S-Plus softwares e.g. in R's -cuminc- package, and R also allows
reading of Stata files with the -foreign- package.
Best regards,
T Kivel�
Univ. of Helsinki
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 [email protected] wrote:
> I am trying to do an analysis of competing-cause mortality. I have a
> mortality dataset where I have death (yes/no) and among those who died,
> whether it was a specific type of death (yes/no).
>
> Initially, I used stset with any-cause death as my failure, then repeated
> the analysis with type-specific death as failure. I've been told that's
> incorrect, because it treats those who died from another cause as just being
> censored, and doesn't allow me to examine whether my exposure of interest
> also increases the non-specific cause of death. I was told I need to do
> competing-cause mortality, to see how my exposure impacts both the
> type-specific and the other causes of death.
>
> I found information on competing risk analysis at
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/stmfail.html, but it appears to be a
> different situation because my failures are mutually exclusive.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
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