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st: -poisson- versus -logistic, cluster-?


From   "Clint Thompson" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: -poisson- versus -logistic, cluster-?
Date   Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:00:33 -0600

Hello all ---
I am using Intercooled, v. 8.2.  
I hope someone can shed some light on a problem concerning technique
(or the appropriateness thereof).  I have a dataset wherein I want to
quantify the effect that a few covariates have on a presumably rare
event, a surgical burn.  Each subject reported the number of surgeries
he/she did in the previous five years and the corresponding number of
surgical burns.  The number of surgical burns ranges from 0 to 15 and
the number of surgeries ranges from 1 to 11,000.  My initial attempt at
modeling this involved expanding the data to -long- then running a
logistic model on a dichotomous outcome that denotes whether the surgery
resulted in a wound burn, clustered by surgeon.    Parenthetically, the
total number of surgeries exceeds 75,000, the total number of burns is
75, there are 80+ unique surgeons, of which only 20 reported any burns. 

My second attempt at modeling this involved the use of a Poisson model
wherein I emulated the example provided on page 207 of the Stata N-R
reference manual.  In this example (as in my attempt), I collapsed the
dataset to the 20 surgeons that reported wound burn and optioned the
-poisson- command with -exposure(surgeries)-.  Both approaches seem
reasonable, albeit I obtain odds ratios and incidence rate ratios that
are, for a few covariates, contradictory.    
Does anyone have any advice or insight into the appropriateness (or
violent inappropriateness) of my approaches??
Many Thanks,
Clint
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