STCRMIX: Stata module to estimate Mixtures of Generalized Gamma Models for Competing Risks

Perry Kuo (), Usama Bilal () and Alvaro Munoz ()
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Perry Kuo: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Usama Bilal: Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health
Alvaro Munoz: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Abstract: stcrmix fits competing risk models through mixtures of generalized gamma distributions, using maximum likelihood, according to methods in Checkley, Brower and Munoz (Epidemiology 2010). This command allows for the specification of two competing risk events, along with a category for individuals for whom the event type was unobserved. Moreover, an upper censoring time should be specified. This is assumed to be the latest potential time at which an individual would be expected to develop one event or the other which is content dependent but if unknown, user can select the times corresponding to when individuals will reach 125 years of age. In terms of parameters, this model allows for seven components of parameters to be estimated, including one for the proportion of subjects that achieve each competing risk, and then three parameters for the distribution of times to each competing risk (location, scale and shape).

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 13
Keywords: survival model; competing risks; gamma distribution; generalized gamma; mixtures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-08-18, Revised 2018-10-23
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install stcrmix". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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