Maybe it is time to consider making Efron's method the default method.
Cleves et al (2008) say on page 151 with respect to Efron's method "This
approximation is more accurate than Breslow's approximation but takes
longer to calculate." With today's computing power this difference in
calculation time between the two methods may be very small. I would
prefer a more accurate approximation by default.
Cleves M et al (2008) "An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata"
2nd Ed. Stata Press, TX.
Regrads, Garry
Garry Anderson
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University of Melbourne
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Also note, if you are doing a survival analysis where time is measured
in months, this may increase the proportion of tied failure times. If
you are intending to use Cox proportional hazards regression for your
analysis, these ties need to be broken and the default method used is
Breslow's which may not be quite accurate if the proportion of ties is
large. So you should check out the other options available in -stcox-:
Efron's Method or the exact methods.
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Schoder
Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2009 4:57 AM
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Subject: st: survival data analysis- recode survival time variable
Hi,
I am working with survival data and have the problem that my variable
survival time is in the following format:
yymm, where y represents years and m months. Instead of the yymm format
I just want to have it in months since otherwise I always have the jump
from 11 months (0011) to 1 year (0100).
Thank you very much for your help!
Johannes
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