Life Tables Define Events for Status Variables

Occurrences of the selected value or values for the status variable indicate that the terminal event has occurred for those cases. All other cases are considered to be censored. Enter either a single value or a range of values that identifies the event of interest.

Defining Events for Status Variable

This feature requires the Advanced Statistics option.

  1. From the menus choose:

    Analyze > Survival > Life Tables…

  2. In the Life Tables dialog box, select a status variable and then click Define Event.
  3. Select either Single value or Range of values and enter value(s).