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Re: st: Survival analysis - lambda and its SE


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Survival analysis - lambda and its SE
Date   Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:03:52 +0100 (BST)

What do you mean by lambda? Different texts use different notations, so
could you tell us in words what lambda is?

--- [email protected] wrote:

> Dear Statalisters,
> 
> I am running a survival analysis. In this respect, does anyone know
> how we
> can calculate the lambda and its standard error after we obtain the
> following results?
> 
> 
> Exponential regression -- accelerated failure-time form
> 
> No. of subjects = 40                     Number of obs   =   40
> No. of failures = 32
> Time at risk    = 2059         LR chi2(1)      =      4.35
> Log likelihood  = -38.159406   Prob > chi2     =    0.0371
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> _t |      Coef.   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf. Interval]
> ---+----------------------------------------------------------------
> group |   0.058095   .0266299     2.18   0.029     .0059    .1102
> _cons |   1.193251   1.342353     0.89   0.374    -1.437    3.824
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I am not sure about this output. 1/lambda = exp(1.19+0.06*group)?
> However,
> what about its standard error?
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Tiago
> 
> 
> 
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