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Re: st: Survival Analysis
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Survival Analysis
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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:18 -0400
The time frame of a retrospective review (your 1994 to 2012) is irrelevant to the survival analysis setup, which formally needs a start date, end date, failure indicator, and covariates.
The definition of a survival cohort usually begins with a range of start dates; an example :"all patients presenting at so-and-so clinic with a diagnosis of such-and-such, from dates A through Z, followed to death or to date W").
You may restrict to those whose records received the special review, but the important question is: what determined which records were reviewed? Unless the reviewed records were 100% or, effectively, a random sample of those eligible, you risk selection bias. So more information on the definition of your cohort would be helpful.
I am curious about where you are doing this work, as an internet search finds no links to your name except for two Statalist posts this month.
Steve
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On Jun 10, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Reese Andorfer wrote:
Dear All,
I will perform a Cox Regression and I am currently preparing my data;
The time span I'm looking at is from 1994 to 2012, individuals
accounted for which received a special examination within this time
frame.
So, it is know possible that an individual died before 1994 (let's say
starting in 1979 and died in 1986) , but I still have it as an
observation since it's case got reviewed in 1994 or later; and I
actually only care for its survival time and the associated
covariates, however I was wondering now if it would suffice that I
create a variable that indicates the year when the individual "died"
or would you recommend incorporating sth. else.
Cheers,
Reese
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