rcsgen

Sep 13, 2017

The rcsgen command generates basis function for restricted cubic splines. The command is used by my stpm2 command to fit flexible parameric survival models. It has a number of advantages over Stata’s inbuilt mkspline command, which will be demonstrated in the tutorials below.

Using rcsgen

  • Generating splines - use of the knots(), bkknots() and percentiles() options.
  • Using the scalar() option for predictions.
  • Using the center() optin for easier predictions
  • Some issues when orthogonalising.
  • The derivative of resicted cubic spline function (the dgen() option).
software rcsgen
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