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st: RE: Interpretation of the Bland-Altman method on Stata


From   "Seed, Paul" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Interpretation of the Bland-Altman method on Stata
Date   Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:05:09 +0000

Dear Emily, 

-baplot- clearly works with logged values; or at least produces numbers rather than error messages. 
When I said it was not designed for logged values, I meant that the output is not clear, 
and further calculations are needed to make sense of them.

It is clear that you used logs base e, not base 10.  
-baplot- treats the first variable as the new method and the second as the reference; 
so you might want to reverse the order.

The mean difference is based on 
               energy_log_r - energy_log_q
               = log( energypd_r)-  log( energypd_q)
               = log( energypd_r/energypd_q)
So exp(mean difference) =  energypd_r/energypd_q
Simple arithmetic converts this ratio to a % difference:

exp(-0.420) = 0.657
Because you are using logs this is the ratio of the geometric means.
The value using method r is only 66% of that found using method q.
A 34% reduction.  



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