Hi all, May i know how do I run bayesian relative survival analysis in SAS? From what i know, a website by Paul Dickman contains SAS code for estimating and modeling relative survival, but no bayesian relative surival. The paper, Spatial variation in prostate cancer survival in the Northern and Yorkshire region of England using Bayesian relative survival smoothing uses Bayesian relative survival. I am currently learning relative survival analysis from the website, http://www.pauldickman.com/rsmodel/sas_colon/. I have look through Bayesian Survival Analysis(2001) by Joseph George Ibrahim, Ming-Hui Chen, Debajyoti Sinha and would like to try out bayesian relative survival analysis in SAS. From SAS/STAT® 9.2 User’s Guide, i know that LIFEREG and PHREG procedures contains procedures for bayesian survival analysis. But i was wondering is there any additional steps or differences between bayesian relative survival and bayesian survival? May i know whether can byesian relative survival analysis be run for the dataset below (colon.sas7bdat) and what are the steps or any macros that i need to download? (For your information, relative survival is the method of choice for estimating patient survival using data collected by population-based cancer registries although its utility is not restricted to studying cancer( Dickman and Adami 2006; Dickman et al. 2004).”, which is a concept defined by Berkson (1942) and Berkson & Gage (1950).Two data files are required in order to estimate relative survival; a file containing individual-level data on the patients (colon.sas7bdat) and a file containing expected probabilities of survival(popmort.sas7bdat) for a comparable general population.) Thanks a lot. Vincent
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