Frank Funderburk a écrit :
> Singer & Willett (2003) also cover this ground.
>
> Singer, JD & Willett, JB (2003). Applied longitudinal data analysis:
> Modeling change and event occurrence. New Yok: Oxford University
> Press.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Frank E Harrell Jr
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jul 29, 2005 9:25 AM To: John Sorkin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject:
> Re: [R] Binary outcome with non-absorbing outcome state
>
> John Sorkin wrote:
>
>> I am trying to model data in which subjects are followed through
>> time to determine if they fall, or do not fall. Some of the
>> subjects fall once, some fall several times. Follow-up time varies
>> from subject to subject. I know how to model time to the first fall
>> (e.g. Cox Proportional Hazards, Kaplan-Meir analyses, etc.) but I
>> am not sure how I can model the data if I include the data for
>> those subjects who fall more than once. I would appreciate
>> suggestions about a models that I could use, how I would quantify
>> the follow-up time, how I account for the imbalance in the data
>> (some subjects would contribute one outcome measure, others
>> multiple measures), etc.
>>
>> Many thanks, John
>
>
> A great reference for this is
>
> @Book{the00mod, author = {Therneau, Terry and Grambsch,
> Patricia}, title = {Modeling Survival Data: Extending
> the Cox Model}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, year =
> 2000, address = {New York} }
>
> Frank
>
>
>>
>> John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
>> Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School
>> of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC
>>
>> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology
>> Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR)
>> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
>>
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Another possibility is to discretize the time, group the observations by
covariate pattern and use a beta-binomial model (accounting for possible
overdispersion caused by the within-subject repeated events) with a
cloglog link. When time interval is short (e.g., 1 day), this is
equivalent to a Cox prpoprtional hazards model. See:
Prentice, R.L., Gloeckler, L.A., 1978. Regression analysis of grouped
survival data with application to breast cancer data. Biometrics, 34: 57-67.
and
Prentice, R.L., 1986. Binary regression using an extended beta-binomial
distribution, with discussion of correlation induced by covariate
measurement errors. J.A.S.A. 81, 321-327.
and subsequent papers.
Function betabin in package aod (among others) allows to fit such models.
Best,
Renaud
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