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Further development of flexible parametric models for survival analysis

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  • Paul C. Lambert

    (University of Leicester, UK)

  • Patrick Royston

    (MRC Clinical Trials Unit)

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Royston and Parmar (2002, Statistics in Medicine 21: 2175 – 2197) developed a class of flexible parametric survival models that were programmed in Stata with the stpm command (Royston, 2001, Stata Journal 1:1-28). In this article, we introduce a new command, stpm2, that extends the methodology. New features for stpm2 include improvement in the way time-dependent covariates are modeled, with these effects far less likely to be over parameterized; the ability to incorporate expected mortality and thus fit relative survival models; and a superior predict command that enables simple quantification of differences between any two covariate patterns through calculation of time-dependent hazard ratios, hazard differences, and survival differences. The ideas are illustrated through a study of breast cancer survival and incidence of hip fracture in prostate cancer patients. Copyright 2009 by StataCorp LP.

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  • Paul C. Lambert & Patrick Royston, 2009. "Further development of flexible parametric models for survival analysis," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 9(2), pages 265-290, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:9:y:2009:i:2:p:265-290
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    1. Patrick Royston, 2001. "Flexible alternatives to the Cox model, and more," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 1(1), pages 1-28, November.
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