Re: st: Recovering the discrete time (interval) baseline hazard function

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Wed, 27/4/11, Urmi Bhattacharya wrote:
> I am interested in plotting the discrete time (interval)
> baseline hazard function against the discrete failure time.

-cloglog- models the log(hazard) so to get the baseline hazard
you need to exponentiate the variable you generated. However,
I would use -adjust- for that. That safes you typing (and thus
reduces the number of opportunities of making a typo) and it
also allows you to predict confidence intervals. I added an
example below:

*---------------------- begin example ----------------------
sysuse cancer, clear
gen id = _n

expand studytime
bysort id : gen month = _n

// the addition (month) makes sure that _n==_N means
// the last month for that individual
bysort id (month) : gen byte dead = died==1 & _n==_N
lab var dead "binary depvar for discrete hazard model"

// further trick to safe you some typing
gen halfyr = ceil(month/6)
ta halfyr ,ge(dur)
replace dur6 = dur6 + dur7
drop dur7 halfyr

// when looking at the baseline hazard you need to make
// sure it refers to a meaningful group by making sure
// that the value 0 for all your explanatory variables 
// refer to a meaningful value within the range of the
// data, here I centered age at 50 years.
gen c_age = age - 50

cloglog dead drug c_age dur1 dur2 dur3 dur4 dur5 dur6, ///
        nocons nolog

// use -adjust- to predict baseline hazard and its
// confidence interval
preserve
adjust drug=0 c_age=0, by(month) exp ci replace
sort month
twoway rarea lb ub month ||    ///
       line exp month,         ///
       legend(off)             ///
       ytitle(baseline hazard)
restore
*-------------------- end example --------------------------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see: 
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany

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