Re: st: cumulative probabilities under competing risks with covariate adjustment

[Enzo Coviello <enzo.coviello@alice.it>]

Dear Uri Goldgerg,

thanks for using -stcompet-

> Do you know of any plan to advance this matter? 
> This has enormous importance in analysis of the 
> old cohort studies where long-term follow up of 
> mortality and/or the incidence of dementia have 
> been instituted and relating them to mid-life levels of risk factors is sought.
At the last Italian Stata Meeting prof. Bill 
Gould said that the competing risks matter is in 
the "wish" (or "doing") list of the Stata Corporation.
Since this is a public mail I believe that prof 
Gutierrez or Gould could directly give a more precise reply.

The -rsource- command, written by R. Newson, 
allows to run R from within Stata. So, in the 
meanwhile you could use the -cmprsk- R-package 
from within Stata and import the results.

As further Stata opportunities in competing 
risks, even if not directly addressing our 
problem, there is -stpepemori- available on the 
SSC archive, testing the equality of two 
cumulative incidence functions, and new codes of 
-strs- (a command estimating relative survival) 
that allows to compute cumulative incidence 
without knowing the cause of death, making use of 
the expected probabilities of death. This new 
version of -strs- is not yet available on the web 
but I can send on request the preliminary version.

Best wishes.

Enzo

Enzo Coviello
Unit� di Epidemiologia e Statistica ASL BARI
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