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Re: st: stset
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: stset
Date
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:44:47 +0000
No; that won't work. You don't have a single time variable or survival
variable. What makes you think that compatible with -stset-?
You need to -reshape- your data.
Nick
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Neophytos Stylianou
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am about to perform some survival analysis and I need to set my dataset in survival data format.
>
> Will the stset command work when data is not in the correct format i.e wide instead of long?
>
> I have a dataset of many variables (550) and observations (60,000) in this format:
> Mortality timeADM timeDisch ID
> Survived Jan2003 Jan2003 1
> Died Feb2004 Mar2004 2
> Survived Jun2006 Aug2006 3
>
> From what is saw in the stset help file as well as Statas manual this will be ok but I am just worried it is not in the long format.
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