st: competing risk models combined with multiple failure model

[Miriam Abu Sharkh <mabu@stanford.edu>]

Hi May, 

I found your answer to Wesley Sine (below) very helpful who asked for assistance with analysing competing risks using a proportional hazards Cox model:
I too am trying to run a competing risks event history (stcox) model using stata but with three potential outcomes. Bit in my case it is essential that these can be repeated.
I have found both competing risk models and multiple failure models helpful (see http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/stmfail.html) but I am looking for one that includes both options.

In my case, I would like to model countries becoming (1) autocracies, or (2) democracies or (3) consolidating democracy so far so good for the competing risk model but I would need a model in which these events can happen multiple times. 
Thank you! Miriam


On Friday afternoon, Wesley Sine asked for help with 
analysing competing risks using a proportional hazards Cox model:

> I am trying to run a competing risks event history model using stata.  Once 
> firms enter the sample, they are at risk for three possible outcomes 
> (technology adoption).  I want to see if a list of various independent 
> variables affect the rate for these outcomes in different ways, maybe in 
> the same direction, but differential impact.  So in the output I should get 
> a set of coefficients (which I think decomposes to the probability of the 
> destination state * the overall rate) for each potential outcome.  In TDA, 
> the command is rate and then specify the outcome and independent variables 
> for each potential outcome (in my case 3 outcomes).  I would appreciate it 
> if someone could tell me how to do this with stcox?

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