Re: st: RE: Adding kaplan meier curve from general population to kaplan meier curve from dataset

[Michael Stewart <michaelstewartresearch@gmail.com>]

Hi Joe/Statalist members,

Thanks for the  e-mail. I am trying to "merge in a US population
survival data set and plot it together with your KM curve"

I have couple of questions in this regard.

1)Where can I get US survival data( hopefully classified by
age/age-categories/sex/race etc). Would you or  any of the stata
experts be kind enough to let me know where I can get the US survival
data(hopefully for free)

2)My dataset format is as follows

pt_id   age follow_up_duration   death(0/1)   stratification_variable
------    ----  --------------------------    -------------
-----------------------------

1        30           5                         0               diabetes
2        35           6                         1                Hypertension
.
.

Thank you very much for your help,








On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Joe Canner <jcanner1@jhmi.edu> wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Google "US population survival" and there will be loads of references that you can use.  You will likely have to retype some data into a Stata data set to get it merged into your data set.  If you want a data set that is already in Stata format, that might be more of a challenge.
>
> Or are you asking how to merge in a US population survival data set and plot it together with your KM curve?  For that you should probably provide more information on the structure of the two data sets.  I've never done it, but I don't think it would be too difficult.
>
> Regards,
> Joe Canner
> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 6:26 PM
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> Subject: st: Adding kaplan meier curve from general population to kaplan meier curve from dataset
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a kaplan meier curve(stratified by a factor variable) for my dataset.
> I would like to add an additinal kaplan meier curve depicting survival
> of population in US. Can anyone help me /give pointers on how this can
> be done??
>
> --
> Thank you ,
> Yours Sincerely,
> Mike.
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Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.

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