Hi everyone,
I would very much appreciate any advice, sample code or reference to a paper or a web page or a book on how to solve this problem.
Basically, i have a population (~600 patients) with a rare disease, collected form an entire state (retrospective data). The datafile has the following variables:
1. Age at diagnosis
2. Sex
3. Disease severity index (continuous variable)
4. Date of last follow up
5. State at last follow up (alive, died of disease, died of other causes).
What I would like to do is to compare survival in this population to the general population. Data on general population is obtained from statistical life tables, an example of such table with a description of the tables is available here:
https://www.lifeexpectancy.org/lifetable.shtml
What I basically think should be done is compare survival in patients (adjusting for disease severity) with age and sex matched data from the life tables. I have not done this kind of analysis before and cannot seem to find any good online reference to illustrate how this can be done. I would very much appreciate any assistance please.
Kind regards
AM
