Stata - Tools for Epidemiologists

New in Stata 10

Standardization of rates
  • direct standardization
  • indirect standardization

Tables for epidemiologists

  • 2 x 2 and 2 x 2 stratified tables for longitudinal, cohort study, case–control, and matched case–control data
  • Odds ratio, incidence ratio, risk ratio, risk difference, and attributable fraction
  • Confidence intervals for the above
  • Chi-squared, Fisher's exact, and Mantel–Haenszel tests
  • Tests for homogeneity
  • Choice of weights for stratified tables: Mantel–Haenszel, standardized, or user-specified
  • Exact McNemar test for matched case–control data
  • Tabulated odds and odds ratios
  • Score test for linear trend

Table symmetry and marginal homogeneity tests

  • n x n tables where there is one-to-one matching of cases and controls
  • asymptotic symmetry and marginal homogeneity tests
  • exact symmetry tests
  • transmission disequilibrium test (TDT)

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submittals

  • read and write data in the format required by the FDA for new drug application (NDA) submittals
  • describe the contents of data written in the FDA required format
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves
  • calculate area under curve
  • fit maximum-likelihood ROC models assuming a binormal distribution of the latent variable
  • test equality of two or more ROC areas
  • test equality of ROC area against a "gold-standard" ROC curve
  • raw and Bonferroni adjusted significance probability
  • Sidak's adjustment for multiple comparisons

Generalized linear models for the binomial family

  • individual-level or grouped data
  • odds ratios, risk ratios, health ratios, and risk differences

Pharmacokinetics

  • pharmacokinetic measures from time-and-concentration subject-level data
  • tests that measurement is normally distributed
  • analysis of data from crossover design experiment
  • tests of bioequivalence for two treatments

ICD-9-CM diagnostic and procedure codes

  • verify that a variable contains valid codes
  • modify codes to display in standard format
  • display a description of codes
  • display the identity of source





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