Kaplan Meyer Curve

[Aamir Malik]

Hello,
I am working on a survival analysis paper and one of the reviewers has asked me to add censored values below the curve

sts graph, by(onlycom) ylab(, nogrid)

Somehow my data is large and I can not make Datex file. Will appreciate if you can help me with some code to get these censored values below the curve.

Thanks in advacne

[Tiago Pereira]

Censored participants are shown as tick marks. Do you mean participants at risk?

sts graph, by(onlycom)  censored(m)  risktable

or

sts graph, by(onlycom)  censored(s)  risktable

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

I think Tiago makes a great recommendation. If the reviewer really meant an indication of censored subjects, I might pushback that those tick marks, or crosshairs or number censored is quite distracting to adorn the curve with, especially with large datasets.

[Paul Dickman]

I agree with the previous posts. I am not a great fan of tickmarks or crosshairs either (with the exception of small data sets like the one used by Tiago).

The following page presents a discussion on this topic, link to a peer-reviewed paper, and links to Stata code for creating Kaplan-Meier plots with the number of censored times included in the table below the plot.

https://www.mrcctu.ucl.ac.uk/our-res...uct/kmunicate/

[Aamir Malik]

Thank you for your help. Yes, when I get the graph with this code, it shows too many points and this is a big distracter. I appreciate your help.