Survival-Time Data in Stata

Survival-time data contain, at a minimum, one variable measuring how much time elapsed before a certain event occurred for each observation. The literature often terms this event of interest a “failure,” regardless of its real-world meaning. When failure has not occurred to an observation by the time data collection ends, that observation is said

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Count-Time Data with Stata

Survival-time (st) datasets like aids.dta contain information on individual people or things, with variables indicating the time at which failure or censoring occurred for each individual. A different type of dataset called count-time (ct) contains aggregate data, with variables counting the number of individuals that failed or were censored at time t. For example,

Kaplan–Meier Survivor Functions by using Stata

Let n t represent the number of observations that have not failed, and are not censored, at the beginning of time period t. dt represents the number of failures that occur to these observations during time period t. The Kaplan-Meier estimator of surviving beyond time t is the product of survival probabilities in t

Cox Proportional Hazard Models by using Stata

Regression methods allow us to take survival analysis further and examine the effects of multiple continuous or categorical predictors. One widely-used method known as Cox regression employs a proportional hazard model. The hazard rate for failure at time t is defined as the rate of failures at time t among those who have survived

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Exponential and Weibull Regression by using Stata

Cox regression estimates the baseline survivor function empirically without reference to any theoretical distribution. Several alternative parametric approaches begin instead from assumptions that survival times do follow a known theoretical distribution. Possible distribution families include the exponential, Weibull, lognormal, log-logistic, Gompertz or generalized gamma. Models based on any of these can be fit through

Poisson Regression by using Stata

If events occur independently and with constant rate, then counts of events over a given period of time follow a Poisson distribution. Let r j represent the incidence rate: The denominator in [10.4] is termed the “exposure” and is often measured in units such as person-years. We model the logarithm of incidence rate as

Generalized Linear Models by using Stata

Generalized linear models (GLM) have the form where    g[ ] is the link function and F the distribution        family. This general formulation encompasses many specific models. For example, if g[ ] is the identity function and y follows a normal (Gaussian) distribution, we have a linear regression model: If g[ ]     is the logit

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Principal Component Analysis and Principal Component Factoring by using Stata

To illustrate principal component and factor analysis, we start with the small dataset, planets.dta, describing the nine classical planets of this solar system (from Beatty et al. 1981). The data include several variables in both raw and natural logarithm form. Logarithms are employed here to reduce skew and linearize relationships among the variables. Principal

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Rotation by using Stata

Rotation further simplifies factor structure. After factoring, type rotate followed by an option to specify the type of rotation. Two common types are: varimax   Varimax orthogonal rotation, producing uncorrelated factors or components (default). promax( )   Promax oblique rotation, allowing correlated factors or components. Choose a number (promax power) < 4; the higher the number,

Factor Scores by using Stata

Factor scores are linear composites, formed by standardizing each variable to zero mean and unit variance, and then weighting with factor score coefficients and summing for each factor. predict performs these calculations automatically, using the most recent rotate or factor results. In the predict command we supply names for the new variables, such as

Different regression models with Panel data (fixed-effects, random-effects, and pooled OLS)

Panel data, also known as longitudinal or cross-sectional time-series data, is a dataset in which the behaviors of entities are observed across time. These entities could be states, companies, individuals, countries etc. Panel data allows us to control for variables we cannot observe or measure across entities; or variables that change over time but

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Principal Factoring by using Stata

The examples above involve principal component factoring, specified by the command factor with option pcf. Other factor options perform different kinds of factor analysis. pcf       Principal component factoring pf          Principal factoring (default) ipf         Principal factoring with iterated communalities ml         Maximum-likelihood factoring Principal factoring extracts principal components from a modified correlation matrix, in

Maximum-Likelihood Factoring by using Stata

Maximum-likelihood factoring, unlike Stata’s other factor options, provides formal hypothesis tests that help in determining the appropriate number of factors. To obtain a single maximum- likelihood factor for the planetary data, type The ml output includes two likelihood-ratio % 2 tests: LR test: independent vs. saturated This tests whether a no-factor (independent) model fits

Cluster Analysis — 1

Cluster analysis encompasses a variety of methods that divide observations into groups or clusters, based on their dissimilarities across a number of variables. It is most often used as an exploratory approach, for developing empirical typologies, rather than as a means of testing pre­specified hypotheses. Indeed, there exists little formal theory to guide hypothesis

Cluster Analysis — 2

Discovering a simple, robust typology to describe nine planets was straightforward. For a more challenging example, consider the cross-national data in Nations2.dta. These United Nations human-development variables could be applied to develop an empirical typology of nations. . use C:\data\Natlons2.dta, clear Working with the same data in Chapter7, we saw that nonlinear transformations such

Using Factor Scores in Regression by using Stata

Principal components and factor analysis often help to define new composite variables for further analysis. For example, the factor scores calculated by predict could become independent or dependent variables in subsequent regression analyses. To illustrate this process we turn to the survey dataset PNWsurvey211.dta. The 16 variables in this dataset represent a subset from

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Measurement and Structural Equation Models by using Stata

Chapter 8 took a first look at structural equation modeling, beginning with a regression-like example involving relationships among observed variables (Figure 8.15). Structural equation models can also incorporate measurement models, which resemble factor analysis. Measurement models posit one or more unobserved, factor-like latent variables that cause variation in observed variables. Figure 11.10 illustrates using

Smoothing by using Stata

Many time series exhibit high-frequency variations that make it difficult to discern underlying patterns. Smoothing such series breaks the data into two parts, one that varies gradually, and a second “rough” part containing the leftover rapid changes: data = smooth + rough To illustrate smoothing methods, we examine data on daily water consumption for

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Further Time Plot Examples by using Stata

Dataset Greenland temperature.dta contains a famous time series of temperature estimates reconstructed from the GISP2 ice core in central Greenland, covering time from about 50,000 years ago up through 1855 (Alley 2004). In scientific publications on these data, time has been represented by the variable age, in units of thousands of years before present.

Recent Climate Change by using Stata

Shifting scale from thousands of years to only the past thirty, the rest of this chapter looks at how climate has changed recently. Dataset Climate.dta contains three time series estimating monthly global temperatures from 1980 through 2010, along with four possible drivers or causes of temperature. Two of the temperature indexes derive from surface-temperature