st: New version of -punafcc- for SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks once more to Kit Baum, a new version of the -punafcc- package is 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to 
do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -punafcc-.

The -punafcc- package is dexcribed as below on my website, and estimates 
population attributable and unattributable fractions for case-control 
and survival studies. The new version now allows logit or Cox models to 
have interactions involving the exposure of interest (varied between 
scenarios), so that exposure effects can vary between subgroups defined 
by other predictors. I worked out how to do this only yesterday morning, 
after studying -help undocumented-.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
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TITLE
      punafcc: Population attributable fractions for case-control and 
survival studies

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      punafcc calculates confidence intervals for population attributable
      and unattributable fractions in case-control or survival studies.
      punafcc can be used after an estimation command whose parameters are
      interpreted as log rate ratios, such as logit or logistic for
      case-control data, or stcox for survival data.  It estimates the log
      of the mean rate ratio, in cases or deaths, between 2 scenarios, a
      baseline scenario ("Scenario 0") and a fantasy scenario ("Scenario
      1"), in which one or more exposure variables are assumed to be set
      to particular values (typically zero), and any other predictor
      variables in the model are assumed to remain the same.  This ratio
      is known as the population unattributable fraction (PUF), and is
      subtracted from 1 to derive the population attributable fraction
      (PAF), defined as the proportion of the cases or deaths attributable
      to living in Scenario 0 instead of Scenario 1.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 02november2011
      Stata-Version: 12

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      punafcc.ado
      punafcc_p.ado
      punafcc.sthlp
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