Re: st: R: Estimating the probability of censoring

[Antoine Terracol <terracol@univ-paris1.fr>]

Antoine Terracol wrote:
> Michael,
>
> What is calculated here is the survival function at time t conditional 
> on covariates, i.e., in your case, the probability that the subjects 
> time-to-censoring will be greater than t if dying from cancer was not a 
> risk. 
Of course, this is because Michael specified

. stset studytime, failure(died==0)

i.e. he is modelling time-to-censoring instead of the usual time-to-failure.

Antoine
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