Hello, I'm a novice STATA programmer and am hoping someone can please help or point me in the right direction. I am working with time to event data in a cohort of HIV+ patients, looking at death from "cause A" vs all other competing causes "cause B. I'm comparing HIV+ intravenous drug users to nonusers, and patients are aligned by age of study entry. The data are also imputed-- I've used STATA's MICE chained imputation method, as some patients were being omitted from survival/CIF analysis since they were missing some baseline covariates (e.g. CD4, race, etc.).
Where I am stuck now is trying to estimate the exact RR (relative risk) and RD (risk difference) of death form cause A (comparing iv drug users to nonusers) at different ages (i.e. age 30, age 40, etc.). I was told that if I could estimate the exact cumulative incidences of death for cause A for each group (IV drug users and users) I can get these estimates, but I'm stumped about how to go about doing that...I've reviewed the manual and tried, stcrreg but don't think this will work. Does anyone have any experience or advice they could offer, would be very grateful.
Thank you.
Kanal
Where I am stuck now is trying to estimate the exact RR (relative risk) and RD (risk difference) of death form cause A (comparing iv drug users to nonusers) at different ages (i.e. age 30, age 40, etc.). I was told that if I could estimate the exact cumulative incidences of death for cause A for each group (IV drug users and users) I can get these estimates, but I'm stumped about how to go about doing that...I've reviewed the manual and tried, stcrreg but don't think this will work. Does anyone have any experience or advice they could offer, would be very grateful.
Thank you.
Kanal
