Re: st: Suest and Cox regression

["Richard T. Campbell" <dcamp@uic.edu>]

Thanks Steve, you are, of course, course correct.
But is this not true also for -streg-? And -suest- works nicely
after streg. I guess I don't understand why -stcox- should be
any different but there is obviously something I am missing here.

At 11:00 AM 7/28/2010, Steve Samuals wrote:
> I'm not expert in the theory of -suest-, but after looking at the
> equations in the manual entry, here's my guess: -suest- works when the
> program computes a score for each observation that is a function of
> the regression coefficients and of the observation's data.  In Cox
> regression, the score is _also_ a function of a random parameter  that
> depends on who is in the observation's final risk set.
>
> Steve





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