Re: st: Re: Extended macro problem

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Clive Nichols wrote that he prefers the non-exponential form of the P 
value. This is easily accomplished using -parmby- followed by -showparmest-

. parmby "xi:logistic married haq pain sex fatigue  age edlevel ", label 
eform format(estimate min95 max95 %8.2f p %9.3f) saving(killme,replace)
Command: xi:logistic married haq pain sex fatigue  age edlevel

Logistic regression                               Number of obs   =       7415
                                                  LR chi2(6)      =     349.84
                                                  Prob > chi2     =     0.0000
Log likelihood = -4300.4191                       Pseudo R2       =     0.0391

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     married | Odds Ratio   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
haq_disabi~y |   .8428295   .0411647    -3.50   0.000     .7658894    .9274987
  pain_scale |   .9860523   .0132516    -1.05   0.296     .9604188     1.01237
         sex |   2.829347   .2200756    13.37   0.000     2.429277    3.295303
fatigue_sc~e |   1.003245   .0121197     0.27   0.789     .9797697    1.027283
         age |   .9805909   .0021429    -8.97   0.000     .9763998       .9848
     edlevel |    .999307    .011803    -0.06   0.953     .9764393     1.02271
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
file killme.dta saved

. showparmest using killme,  sort ciform(to)

             Variable   Odds Ratio          95% C.I.   P value
         Sex (% male)         2.83    (2.43 to 3.30)     0.000
          Age (years)         0.98    (0.98 to 0.98)     0.000
            HAQ (0-3)         0.84    (0.77 to 0.93)     0.000
          Pain (0-10)         0.99    (0.96 to 1.01)     0.296
       Fatigue (0-10)         1.00    (0.98 to 1.03)     0.789
    Education (years)         1.00    (0.98 to 1.02)     0.953
             Constant         8.50   (5.37 to 13.46)     0.000

[Note: -showparmest- is a work in progress]

Fred

At 06:47 AM 6/1/2004, you wrote:

> Fred Wolfe displayed:
>
> > . showparmest using killme,  sort ciform(to)
> >
> >               Variable   Odds Ratio          95% C.I.   P value
> >           Sex (% male)         2.83    (2.43 to 3.30)   8.9e-41
> >            Age (years)         0.98    (0.98 to 0.98)   3.0e-19
> >              HAQ (0-3)         0.84    (0.77 to 0.93)   4.6e-04
> >            Pain (0-10)         0.99    (0.96 to 1.01)   3.0e-01
> >         Fatigue (0-10)         1.00    (0.98 to 1.03)   7.9e-01
> >      Education (years)         1.00    (0.98 to 1.02)   9.5e-01
> >               Constant         8.50   (5.37 to 13.46)   7.0e-20
> >
> > file killme.dta saved
>
> "Figo!" as the Italians would say. However, would it not be a good idea to
> reformat the p-values to - taking the second value from the top - 0.296?

Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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