st: New version of -punaf- on SSC

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

Thanks as always 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 described as below on my website. The new 
version fixes a bug, which caused - punafcc- to give the wrong results 
when called after -stcox- in a survival dataset with censored lifetimes. 
This is now fixed.

I would like to thank Brian Claggett of Harvard University for alerting 
me to this bug, and Isabel Canette of Stata Technical Support for her 
helpful advice about how best to correct this bug. And I would like to 
apologise for any inconvenience caused. (I have added a new test 
sequence to my certification script for -punafcc- to check that it stays 
fixed.)

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
Imperial College London
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Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.

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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: 17april2013
      Stata-Version: 12

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