This contains the data and a set of programs that can be used to generated the results presented in Honoré and Lleras-Muney: "Bounds in Competings Risks Models and the War on Cancer" . Routines better suited for adaption to other purposes can be found at programs/HL-M

The raw data can be found in data_programs/bodeathrates2.txt. A short explanation is given in data_programs/Data Description.html. The hazard rates are calculated in data_programs/create_hazard_rates.prg

The programs data_programs/table2.gau and data_programs/table3.gau are Gauss programs used to generate the results in Table 2 and Table 3. They call the routines utils.gau, utils1.gau and utils3.gau.(also in data_programs/). They also call the compiled fortran routines data_programs/with kinks/The fortran routines (linux)/simplex1.so (under Linux; the source code is in data_programs/with kinks/The fortran routines (linux)/simplex1.for) or data_programs/The fortran routines (Windows)/sim_new.dll (under windows; the source code is in data_programs/The fortran routines (Windows)/simplex1.for). utils.gau has to be modified to refelect the location of those files.

Figures 1 and 2 were generated by data_programs/Figure1_Hazards.gau and data_programs/Figure2_Peterson_Bound.gau.

The numbers in Tables 4 (and 4a of the Appendix) are created in the folder data_programs/counter. The relevant program is data_programs/counter/Table4_2006.gau. The estimation underlying Figure 4 are in the folder data_programs/with kinks.
The relevant program is data_programs/with kinks/Figure4_table_2006.gau