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Hazard rate & SE in life table

Bruce Weaver
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The last two columns in the life table generated by SURVIVAL show the hazard rate and its standard error.  I strongly suspect that the SE is actually for the natural log of the hazard rate, but have not yet found anything in the Help to confirm this.  Can anyone confirm?  

Thanks,
Bruce
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Re: Hazard rate & SE in life table

Alex Reutter

Have a look at Help > Algorithms, then SURVIVAL Algorithms > Construction of Life Table > Calculation of Survival Functions > Standard Error of the Hazard Rate; or the Survival chapter of the Algorithms PDF if you have the CD's available.  That looks at first glance like an SE for the hazard rate and not log(hazard rate).

Alex



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The last two columns in the life table generated by SURVIVAL show the hazard
rate and its standard error.  I strongly suspect that the SE is actually for
the natural log of the hazard rate, but have not yet found anything in the
Help to confirm this.  Can anyone confirm?

Thanks,
Bruce

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Re: Hazard rate & SE in life table

Bruce Weaver
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Thanks Alex.  And yes, it does look like the SE of HR, not of ln(HR).  That seems a bit odd to me.  Given how commonly the hazard rate ratio is reported, the SE of ln(HR) would be useful.

Bruce

Alex Reutter wrote
Have a look at Help > Algorithms, then SURVIVAL Algorithms > Construction
of Life Table > Calculation of Survival Functions > Standard Error of the
Hazard Rate; or the Survival chapter of the Algorithms PDF if you have the
CD's available.  That looks at first glance like an SE for the hazard rate
and not log(hazard rate).

Alex




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The last two columns in the life table generated by SURVIVAL show the
hazard
rate and its standard error.  I strongly suspect that the SE is actually
for
the natural log of the hazard rate, but have not yet found anything in the
Help to confirm this.  Can anyone confirm?

Thanks,
Bruce
--
Bruce Weaver
bweaver@lakeheadu.ca
http://sites.google.com/a/lakeheadu.ca/bweaver/

"When all else fails, RTFM."

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: 
1. My Hotmail account is not monitored regularly. To send me an e-mail, please use the address shown above.
2. The SPSSX Discussion forum on Nabble is no longer linked to the SPSSX-L listserv administered by UGA (https://listserv.uga.edu/).