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Re: st: Calculation of cubic splines


From   Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Calculation of cubic splines
Date   Thu, 19 May 2011 15:08:42 +0200

You already have the predicted probabilities, that is what you got
when you typed -predict p_spline-. The analytic representation is not
so easy, so that I cannot meaningfully start trying to type it here in
plain text. I would just look at the methods and formulas section of
the manual entry on -mkspline-(*). Alternatively I often like linear
splines as a good compromise between interpretability and flexibility
of the curve.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

(*) Note however that when you are using Stata 10, the manual entry
contains a typo in the formula. I believe a minus sign on the wrong
side of one of the brackets.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mikkel Brabrand <[email protected]> wrote:
> All.
>
> I am trying to use cubic splines to assess risk of in-hospital mortality using some vital signs. I would like to calculate the predicted mortality using cubic splines manually.
>
> I have defined the following knots:
> . mkspline _Ssbt = sbt, cubic nknots(5) displayknots
>
>             |     knot1      knot2      knot3      knot4      knot5
> -------------+-------------------------------------------------------
>         sbt |        97        119        132        146        178
>
> . mat sbt_knots = r(knots)
>
> . mkspline _Stemp = temp, cubic nknots(5) displayknots
>
>             |     knot1      knot2      knot3      knot4      knot5
> -------------+-------------------------------------------------------
>        temp |      35.9       36.6         37       37.3       38.8
>
> . mat temp_knots = r(knots)
>
> . mkspline _Salder = alder, cubic nknots(5) displayknots
>
>             |     knot1      knot2      knot3      knot4      knot5
> -------------+-------------------------------------------------------
>       alder |        23         53         66         76         88
>
> . mat alder_knots = r(knots)
>
> And have run the logistic regression as follows:
>
> . xi: logit in_hosp_mort _Ssbt* _Stemp* _Salder*, or
>
> Iteration 0:   log likelihood = -364.70483
> Iteration 1:   log likelihood = -322.05257
> Iteration 2:   log likelihood = -301.68143
> Iteration 3:   log likelihood = -299.60534
> Iteration 4:   log likelihood =  -299.5029
> Iteration 5:   log likelihood = -299.50192
> Iteration 6:   log likelihood = -299.50192
>
> Logistic regression                               Number of obs   =       2979
>                                                  LR chi2(12)     =     130.41
>                                                  Prob > chi2     =     0.0000
> Log likelihood = -299.50192                       Pseudo R2       =     0.1788
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> in_hosp_mort | Odds Ratio   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf. Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
>      _Ssbt1 |   .9557737   .0141873    -3.05   0.002     .9283678    .9839888
>      _Ssbt2 |    1.19366   .1618851     1.31   0.192     .9150398    1.557117
>      _Ssbt3 |   .4041954   .3164691    -1.16   0.247     .0871232    1.875205
>      _Ssbt4 |   3.502106   4.366206     1.01   0.315     .3041618    40.32311
>     _Stemp1 |   .2456296   .0807298    -4.27   0.000     .1289796    .4677788
>     _Stemp2 |   6.086799   31.49901     0.35   0.727     .0002396    154643.8
>     _Stemp3 |   1.01e+11   3.39e+12     0.75   0.452     2.19e-18    4.62e+39
>     _Stemp4 |   3.34e-36   2.06e-34    -1.33   0.185     1.19e-88    9.42e+16
>    _Salder1 |   1.078022   .0906853     0.89   0.372     .9141613    1.271254
>    _Salder2 |   1.004445   .1631946     0.03   0.978     .7305158    1.381093
>    _Salder3 |   .7612758   .8178836    -0.25   0.800     .0926928    6.252275
>    _Salder4 |    2.45316    5.18604     0.42   0.671     .0389283    154.5918
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> . predict p_spline if e(sample)
> (option pr assumed; Pr(in_hosp_mort))
> .
> . roctab in_hosp_mort p_spline, summary
>
>                      ROC                    -Asymptotic Normal--
>           Obs       Area     Std. Err.      [95% Conf. Interval]
>         --------------------------------------------------------
>          2979     0.8207       0.0240        0.77361     0.86786
>
> .
>
> My question is: What is the formula I should use to calculate the predicted mortality? I have spend a great deal of time on this and have not been able to figure it out.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mikkel
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany


http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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