Multi-state modelling tutorials in Stata

This page contains a collection of worked examples using the multistate Stata package. Examples are loosely grouped into areas, and may appear in more than one area.

Type help multistate to access the summary help file, which documents all the available commands and options.

If you have an example you’d like to contribute, then please get in touch.

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Background

• Defining your transition matrix for multistate modelling
• The difference between Markov and Semi-Markov models
• Methods for calculating predictions from a multistate model

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Survival (time-to-event) analysis

• Using predictms for simple and extended predictions from a standard survival model

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Competing risks

• Modelling competing causes of death with transition-specific timescales

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Illness-death modelling

• A three-state illness-death model with Weibull transitions
• A Markov illness-death model with transition-specific survival models
• A semi-Markov illness-death model
• A four-state extended illness-death model

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Miscellaneous

• Probabilistic sensitivity analysis with multistate

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