Comment from the Stata technical groupAn Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata, Third Edition is the ideal tutorial for professional data analysts who want to learn survival analysis for the first time or who are well versed in survival analysis but are not as dexterous in using Stata to analyze survival data. This text also serves as a valuable reference to those readers who already have experience using Stata’s survival analysis routines.
The third edition has been updated for Stata 11, and it includes a new chapter on competing-risks analysis. This chapter describes the problems posed by competing events (events that impede the failure event of interest), and covers estimation of cause-specific hazards and cumulative incidence functions. Other enhancements include the handling of missing values by multiple imputation in Cox regression, a new-to-Stata-11 system for specifying categorical (factor) variables and their interactions, three additional diagnostic measures for Cox regression, and a more efficient syntax for obtaining predictions and diagnostics after Cox regression.
Survival analysis is a field of its own that requires specialized data management and analysis procedures. To meet this requirement, Stata provides the st family of commands for organizing and summarizing survival data. The authors of this text are also the authors of Stata’s st commands.
This book provides statistical theory, step-by-step procedures for analyzing survival data, an in-depth usage guide for Stata’s most widely used st commands, and a collection of tips for using Stata to analyze survival data and to present the results. This book develops from first principles the statistical concepts unique to survival data and assumes only a knowledge of basic probability and statistics and a working knowledge of Stata.
The first three chapters of the text cover basic theoretical concepts: hazard functions, cumulative hazard functions, and their interpretations; survivor functions; hazard models; and a comparison of nonparametric, semiparametric, and parametric methodologies. Chapter 4 deals with censoring and truncation. The next three chapters cover the formatting, manipulation, stsetting, and error checking involved in preparing survival data for analysis using Stata’s st analysis commands. Chapter 8 covers nonparametric methods, including the Kaplan–Meier and Nelson–Aalen estimators and the various nonparametric tests for the equality of survival experience.
Chapters 9–11 discuss Cox regression and include various examples of fitting a Cox model, obtaining predictions, interpreting results, building models, model diagnostics, and regression with survey data. The next four chapters cover parametric models, which are fit using Stata’s streg command. These chapters include detailed derivations of all six parametric models currently supported in Stata and methods for determining which model is appropriate, as well as information on stratification, obtaining predictions, and advanced topics such as frailty models. Chapter 16 is devoted to power and sample-size calculations for survival studies. The final chapter covers survival analysis in the presence of competing risks.

Table of contentsList of Tables
List of Figures
Preface to the Third Edition (pdf)
Preface to the Second Edition (pdf)
Preface to the Revised Edition (pdf)
Preface to the First Edition (pdf)
Notation and Typography
1 The problem of survival analysis (pdf)
1.1 Parametric modeling
1.2 Semiparametric modeling
1.3 Nonparametric analysis
1.4 Linking the three approaches

2 Describing the distribution of failure times
2.1 The survivor and hazard functions
2.2 The quantile function
2.3 Interpreting the cumulative hazard and hazard rate 2.3.1 Interpreting the cumulative hazard
2.3.2 Interpreting the hazard rate
2.4 Means and medians
3 Hazard models
3.1 Parametric models
3.2 Semiparametric models
3.3 Analysis time (time at risk)
4 Censoring and truncation
4.1 Censoring 4.1.1 Right-censoring
4.1.2 Interval-censoring
4.1.3 Left-censoring
4.2 Truncation 4.2.1 Left-truncation (delayed entry)
4.2.2 Interval-truncation (gaps)
4.2.3 Right-truncation

5 Recording survival data
5.1 The desired format
5.2 Other formats
5.3 Example: Wide-form snapshot data
6 Using stset
6.1 A short lesson on dates
6.2 Purposes of the stset command
6.3 Syntax of the stset command 6.3.1 Specifying analysis time
6.3.2 Variables defined by stset
6.3.3 Specifying what constitutes failure
6.3.4 Specifying when subjects exit from the analysis
6.3.5 Specifying when subjects enter the analysis
6.3.6 Specifying the subject-ID variable
6.3.7 Specifying the begin-of-span variable
6.3.8 Convenience options

7 After stset
7.1 Look at stset’s output
7.2 List some of your data
7.3 Use stdescribe
7.4 Use stvary
7.5 Perhaps use stfill
7.6 Example: Hip fracture data
8 Nonparametric analysis
8.1 Inadequacies of standard univariate methods
8.2 The Kaplan–Meier estimator 8.2.1 Calculation
8.2.2 Censoring
8.2.3 Left-truncation (delayed entry)
8.2.4 Interval-truncation (gaps)
8.2.5 Relationship to the empirical distribution function
8.2.6 Other uses of sts list
8.2.7 Graphing the Kaplan–Meier estimate
8.3 The Nelson–Aalen estimator
8.4 Estimating the hazard function
8.5 Estimating mean and median survival times
8.6 Tests of hypothesis 8.6.1 The log-rank test
8.6.2 The Wilcoxon test
8.6.3 Other tests
8.6.4 Stratified tests

9 The Cox proportional hazards model
9.1 Using stcox 9.1.1 The Cox model has no intercept
9.1.2 Interpreting coefficients
9.1.3 The effect of units on coefficients
9.1.4 Estimating the baseline cumulative hazard and survivor functions
9.1.5 Estimating the baseline hazard function
9.1.6 The effect of units on the baseline functions
9.2 Likelihood calculations 9.2.1 No tied failures
9.2.2 Tied failures The marginal calculation
The partial calculation
The Breslow approximation
The Efron approximation
9.2.3 Summary
9.3 Stratified analysis 9.3.1 Obtaining coefficient estimates
9.3.2 Obtaining estimates of baseline functions
9.4 Cox models with shared frailty 9.4.1 Parameter estimation
9.4.2 Obtaining estimates of baseline functions
9.5 Cox models with survey data 9.5.1 Declaring survey characteristics
9.5.2 Fitting a Cox model with survey data
9.5.3 Some caveats of analyzing survival data from complex survey designs
9.6 Cox model with missing data–multiple imputation
9.6.1 Imputing missing values
9.6.2 Multiple-imputation inference


10 Model building using stcox
10.1 Indicator variables
10.2 Categorical variables
10.3 Continuous variables
10.3.1 Fractional polynomials

10.4 Interactions
10.5 Time-varying variables 10.5.1 Using stcox, tvc() texp()
10.5.2 Using stsplit
10.6 Modeling group effects: fixed-effects, random-effects, stratification, and clustering
11 The Cox model: Diagnostics
11.1 Testing the proportional-hazards assumption 11.1.1 Tests based on reestimation
11.1.2 Test based on Schoenfeld residuals
11.1.3 Graphical methods
11.2 Residuals and diagnostic measures            Reye’s syndrome data
11.2.1 Determining functional form
11.2.2 Goodness of fit
11.2.3 Outliers and influential points

12 Parametric models
12.1 Motivation
12.2 Classes of parametric models 12.2.1 Parametric proportional hazards models
12.2.2 Accelerated failure-time models
12.2.3 Comparing the two parameterizations

13 A survey of parametric regression models in Stata
13.1 The exponential model 13.1.1 Exponential regression in the PH metric
13.1.2 Exponential regression in the AFT metric

13.2 Weibull regression 13.2.1 Weibull regression in the PH metric Fitting null models
13.2.2 Weibull regression in the AFT metric
13.3 Gompertz regression (PH metric)
13.4 Lognormal regression (AFT metric)
13.5 Loglogistic regression (AFT metric)
13.6 Generalized gamma regression (AFT metric)
13.7 Choosing among parametric models 13.7.1 Nested models
13.7.2 Nonnested models

14 Postestimation commands for parametric models
14.1 Use of predict after streg 14.1.1 Predicting the time of failure
14.1.2 Predicting the hazard and related functions
14.1.3 Calculating residuals
14.2 Using stcurve
15 Generalizing the parametric regression model
15.1 Using the ancillary() option
15.2 Stratified models
15.3 Frailty models 15.3.1 Unshared frailty models
15.3.2 Example: Kidney data
15.3.3 Testing for heterogeneity
15.3.4 Shared frailty models

16 Power and sample-size determination for survival analysis
16.1 Estimating sample size 16.1.1 Multiple-myeloma data
16.1.2 Comparing two survivor functions nonparametrically
16.1.3 Comparing two exponential survivor functions
16.1.4 Cox regression models
16.2 Accounting for withdrawal and accrual of subjects
16.2.1 The effect of withdrawal or loss to follow-up
16.2.2 The effect of accrual
16.2.3 Examples

16.3 Estimating power and effect size
16.4 Tabulating or graphing results
17 Competing risks
17.1 Cause-specific hazards
17.2 Cumulative incidence functions
17.3 Nonparametric analysis
17.3.1 Breast cancer data
17.3.2 Cause-specific hazards
17.3.3 Cumulative incidence functions

17.4 Semiparametric analysis
17.4.1 Cause-specific hazards
Simultaneous regressions for cause-specific hazards

17.4.2 Cumulative incidence functions
Using stcrreg
Using stcox


17.5 Parametric analysis

References
Author index (pdf)
Subject index (pdf)

在前一版的基础上增加了  Power and sample-size determination for survival analysis

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