Cancer registries are often interested in estimating net survival (NS), the probability of survival if the cancer under study is the only possible cause of death. Pohar Perme, Stare, and Esteve (2012, Biometrics 68: 113–120) proposed a new estimator of NS based on inverse probability...

In this article, we illustrate the command distrate, which calcu- lates age-standardized rates with efficient interval estimation by using formulas developed by Tiwari, Clegg, and Zou (2006, Statistical Methods in Medical Re- search 15: 547–569) as a modification of the method proposed by Fay...