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Re: st: Time to event analysis OLS negative intercept, Survival Analysis
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Time to event analysis OLS negative intercept, Survival Analysis
Date
Tue, 9 Jul 2013 22:36:25 +0100
If your response variable is on a log scale, negative values indicate
values below 1. For an introduction to logarithms, see e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm That doesn't sound wrong, but
as you don't say what the predictors are, further comment is
difficult.
Nick
[email protected]
On 9 July 2013 22:28, Reese Andorfer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> My dependent variable is the duration up until to an event. I did Cox
> regressions for my models, which worked fine. Now, since I have uncensored
> data I ran OLS regressions ( dependent variable still the duration -
> altough I took the log) as a sort of robustness check, however I get now
> negative values for the intercepts, which kind of bugs me since I don't
> have an explanation for it. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong ?
>
> Thank you,
> Best Reese
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