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Re: st: Order of variables in stcox model
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Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Order of variables in stcox model
Date
Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:13:05 -0700 (PDT)
Sami Alameen <[email protected]> wrote:
The order doesn't matter except for
> the first variable, which is the
> dependent variable, so changing it measures a different
> thing!!!!
Sami is incorrect!!
These are time-to-event models. You -stset- the data and time or more precisely -_t- becomes your "dependent" variable of sorts. All the variables after -xtcox- are independent variables and their order in the model does not matter.
Ricardo
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
--- On Sun, 8/14/11, Sami Alameen <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Sami Alameen <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: Order of variables in stcox model
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, August 14, 2011, 7:05 AM
> The order doesn't matter except for
> the first variable, which is the
> dependent variable, so changing it measures a different
> thing!!!!
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