Re: st: running rcpoisson command

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I think this misses the difficulty. A limit of 44 can't apply
universally as there are women up to 49 in the dataset. Therefore
Fatma would need to specify a variable at least in respect of those
women who might yet have more children, but presumably she can have no
information on age at menopause in respect of women who had not yet
passed that point at time of recording. So, the question is really
bounced back to her: what information does she have that could
possibly be used to indicate precise age at censoring?

Nick

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com> wrote:

> Strictly agreeing to Aaron Kirkman and Billy where your should follow
> the FAQs. You can write the censoring as given in the help file itself
> which you should have thought about before posting here and posting
> twice.
>
> Use ul[(#|varname)] to get your results as
>
> rcpoisson depvar list-ind-vars, ul[(44|ageofwomenvariable)]
>
> More details and usage of the -rcpoisson- is rich of description..

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Fatma Romeh <fromeh1@student.gsu.edu> wrote:

>> I'm having a problem with running the rcpoisson command. I want to regress the number of living children per woman on some variables such as (her current age, her education, etc.). The women that I have in my sample are aged between 15-49. I think my dependent variable is right censored for the the women who are not reached the end of their fertility period. My question is how to write the rcpoisson command such that Stata treats the women who are below age 44 as right censored? I appreciate any help with my question, many thanks.

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