Thanks to Eva and Kieran for their replies...
I realised yesterday on the way home after posting that I had been a
little hasty as I'd not checked the -man syntax- page to fully
understand the -syntax- thats being used.
Eva Poen wrote:
> I don't have experience with -strel-, I'm afraid. Just from looking at
> the -syntax- statement, the using option should not be specified with
> parenthesis.
>
> Try
>
> strel br(0[0.25]3[.5]5) using data/stata/life_tables if(sex == 1), ///
> mergeby(sex year age)
>
Thanks for the pointer, this was one of the -syntax- errors that I'd
made, the other was that....
syntax anything(name=breaks id="numlist")
...expects simply a list of numbers that is then stored in the local
macro `breaks'. I made this mistake mainly due to working without the
new help-file and relying on old do-file examples (and of coures not
reading -man syntax-) and was therefore incorrectly specifying
-br(0[.25]3[.5]5)- when in actual fact the encapsulating -br()- is not
required.
Kieran McCaul wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> The -stset- is saying you have no failures - no deaths - is this
> correct?
>
Well spotted, another over-sight on my behalf, I've corrected this and
have hit another problem that I'm working through, but this would no
doubt have caused me some head scratching when I didn't get any results
at the end!
Thanks again, and apologies for not reading the -man- pages.
Neil
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