At the UK Stata User's Group meeting in 2000, we presented a series of linked commands which made it possible to declare exposure, stratifying and confounding variables, and to combine this information with Stata estimation commands such as regress, logistic, poisson, stcox, xtpois, etc., to...

In this article, we describe strel2, a Stata command for the estimation of excess hazard and relative survival in large population-based datasets. strel2 implements the maximum-likelihood estimation approach developed by Est`eve et al. (1990, Statistics in Medicine 9: 529–538) and assumes that...

At the last users' group meeting I presented a GI command for estimating effects using linear models. The command relied on a classification of variables according to their function in the linear model, and the user had to select, from a list, the particular regression command to be used (e.g....