Hi John,
there is a command "INTCENS" whic u can handle interval censoring. U can download the specific program from via your STATA version and then use it..
ioanna
----- Original Message -----
From: John Stephenson <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:15 am
Subject: st: Interval censored data in survival analysis
To: [email protected]
> I am attempting to do a parametric survival analysis with interval censored
> data. However, I don't know if Stata can handle interval censoring. Does
> anyone know how to do this using Stata? (I am working with release 9)
>
> Alternatively, if it is not possible (or easy), two alternatives are:
> 1. find the midpoint of each interval and use that
> 2. assuming that each item of data is interval censored between time
> T1 and
> some later time T2, duplicate each item so that the same item appears
> both
> as a positive outcome at time T2 and as a right censored outcome at T1.
>
> If anyone has any views on the accuracy and applicability of either of
> these methods I'd be grateful to hear them.
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
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