TY - GEN AU - Cleves, Mario AU - Gould, William AU - Gutierrez, Roberto G. AU - Marchenko, Yulia V. TI - An Introduction to survival analysis using stata SN - 9781597180740 U1 - 005.55 PY - 2010/// CY - Texas PB - Stata Press KW - Computer and Information system KW - Stata KW - Statistics - Econometric models KW - Survival analysis (Biometry) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-399) and indexes N2 - 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 additions 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 ER -