survival_statistics: survival_statistics

In CancerRegistryOfNorway/stnetcall: NORDCAN Survival Statistics

survival_statistics

Description

Provides non-parametric estimate of marginal relative survival, which under assumptions can be interpreted as marginal net survival. survival_statistics() is calling the Stata stnet program, using the Pohar Perme estimator with Brenner weighting to estimate age-standardized net survival.

Detailed documentation is available at https://github.com/CancerRegistryOfNorway/NORDCAN/wiki/nordcansurvival

Usage

survival_statistics(
  stata_exe_path = NULL,
  infile,
  lifetable,
  outfile = "survival_statistics",
  estimand = "netsurvival"
)

Arguments

stata_exe_path	This is set in the NORDCAN settings by default
infile	path to a dataset of cancer records
lifetable	(mandatory, default by NORDCAN system)
outfile	path where to write result file. The outfile must be a set of survival_statistics_agestandardised_survivaltime_05_period_05 survival_statistics_agestandardised_survivaltime_05_period_10 survival_statistics_agestandardised_survivaltime_10_period_05 survival_statistics_agestandardised_survivaltime_10_period_10 survival_statistics_agespecific_survivaltime_05_period_05 survival_statistics_agespecific_survivaltime_05_period_10 survival_statistics_agespecific_survivaltime_10_period_05 survival_statistics_agespecific_survivaltime_10_period_10 and it was set up by the option output_objects of nordcanepistats::nordcan_statistics_tables
estimand	defaults to netsurvival the only option so far

Value

survival analysis output in .csv (UTF-8) and .dta format.

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