RE: st: RE: How to overlay four Cox survival curves in one graph

[Tim Evans <Tim.Evans@wmciu.nhs.uk>]

Agnes,

This might not be the most eloquent option, but this is how I thought you might combine your two models onto one graph (mostly borrowed from http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-04/msg00139.html - there are more examples on this thread):


clear
sysuse cancer
drop if drug==3
qui stset st,failure(di)  
sum age
gen meanage=age-r(mean)
stcox drug, basesurv(baseline_drug) strata(drug) nolog
gen s1=baseline_drug if drug==1
label var s1 "Placebo"
gen s2=baseline_drug if drug==2
label var s2 "Drug X"
stcox meanage,  basesurv(baseline_age) strata(drug) nolog
gen s3=baseline_age if drug==1
label var s3 "Placebo_1"
gen s4=baseline_age if drug==2
label var s4 "Drug X_1"

sort _t
twoway line s1 _t, connect(stairstep) || /*
*/  line s2 _t, connect(stairstep) || /*
*/ line s3 _t, connect(stairstep) || /*
*/ line s4 _t, connect(stairstep) ||, /*
*/ legend(rows(1)) title("Survival at average age")/*
*/ xtitle("analysis time")


Best wishes

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 19 April 2013 01:06
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: RE: How to overlay four Cox survival curves in one graph

Tim gave an explanation. Looking at the help gives you more detail:

 basesurv(newvar) adds newvar to the data containing the estimated baseline survivor
        function.  In the null model, this is equivalent to the Kaplan-Meier product-limit
        estimate.  If strata() is also specified, baseline estimates for each stratum are
        provided.

So you need to run each model separately with -basesurv()- as an option. Then you can plot those variables on a -line- plot. You'll need to work on the -legend()- as -basesurv()- attaches the same variable label.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com

On 19 April 2013 00:09, agnes cheah <agnesxie4@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks  Tim and Nick. However, I am not sure which words I need to 
> replace with variable names or commands to draw the 4 curves in one 
> graph. Do I have to save the graphs into memory and call in out again 
> later?
> Just to put it in context, I used these commands to plot Cox survival 
> curves each time after performing the stcox regression stcurve, 
> survival at 1(group=0 at 2(group=1)- plotted two lines based on group 
> stcurve, survival at 1(Drug=1) at 2(Drug=2)- plotted two lines based 
> on Drug

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:

>> This should work too, in the same example.
>>
>> line basesurvest* _t, connect(J ..) sort legend(order(1 "1" 2 "2" 3 
>> "3"))

On 18 April 2013 10:58, Tim Evans <Tim.Evans@wmciu.nhs.uk> wrote:

>>> Can you run -stcox- with and estimate the basesurv. You should then be able to construct your survival curves in one graph using something like this:
>>>
>>> forval i = 1/3 {
>>> stcox if whatever==`i', estimate basesurv(basesurvest`i') }
>>>
>>> line basesurvest1 _t, connect(J) sort || /* */ line basesurvest2 _t, 
>>> connect(J) sort || /* */ line basesurvest3 _t, connect(J) sort
>>
>> agnes cheah
>>
>>> I have plotted two separate Cox survival curves (corresponding to two Cox models). How do I overlay the two plots (containing 2 curves, because stcurve, by variable command used) into one single graph)? I tried graph combine (not what I want) and addplot (does not seem to work).

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