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Re: st: Interpretation of regressionmodel of ln-transformed variable


From   "roland andersson" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Interpretation of regressionmodel of ln-transformed variable
Date   Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:07:11 +0100

Peter and Maarten

I am sorry Peter. Your model is not accepted by Stata. I tried
different alternativ without success.

However I tried Maarten GLM model

xi: glm studytime i.drug c_age cons, family(gaussian) link(log) nocons eform

on my data and got a different result compared to the regress of the
lnLOS. Now laparoscopy has shorter LOS. Which method is correct?
						
		           OIM
LOS	                  exp(b)	Std. Err.	z	      P>z	         [95% Conf.	Interval]
						
lapscopiin~n	.9564416	.0177129	-2.40	         0.016	 .9223473	.9917961
_Iappdgn2_1	1.877733	.0296501	39.90	 0.000	1.82051	1.936755
_Iappdgn2_3	1.261943	.0406183	7.23	         0.000	1.184792	1.344118
_Ialderkat_0	1.217428	.033424	7.17	        0.000	1.153649	1.284732
_Ialderka~20	.9216973	.0248353	-3.03	        0.002	.874284	.9716818
_Ialderka~30	.9769093	.0266964	-0.85	        0.393	.9259619	1.03066
_Ialderka~40	1.042333	.0310393	1.39	        0.164	.9832382	1.104979
_Ialderka~50	1.193937	.0329973	6.41	        0.000	1.130984	1.260394
_Ialderka~60	1.288248	.0401942	8.12	        0.000	1.211829	1.369486
_Ialderka~70	1.627175	.0499963	15.84	0.000	1.532076	1.728176
_Ialderka~80	2.187109	.0728674	23.49	0.000	2.048855	2.334693
prepermalign	1.309315	.0431838	8.17	        0.000	1.227354	1.39675
precardios~s	1.055536	.0380158	1.50	        0.133	.9835957	1.132739
preperlung~d	1.173726	.0379413	4.96	        0.000	1.101669	1.250496
preperhype~i	1.031919	.0318163	1.02	        0.308	.9714069	1.096201
preperhjar~t	1.217436	.049107	4.88	        0.000	1.124894	1.31759
prepernjur~t	1.438939	.1225243	4.27	        0.000	1.217765	1.700284
preperdiab~s	1.110856	.0446201	2.62	        0.009	1.026756	1.201844
cons	                2.244081	.0400108	45.33	0.000	2.167015	2.323887
						

Greetings
Roland


2008/11/5 Lachenbruch, Peter <[email protected]>:
> The issue seems to be that hospitals have a closure date on stay when
> you are doing a study after patients are certain (or almost certain) to
> have been discharged (e.g., all records are from admissions at least a
> year old).
>
> An alternative model might fit the reciprocal of the mean rather than
> the log of the observations (thus obviating problems with 0 days of stay
> - e.g. an outpatient visit to the ER)  in this case you could use
> generalized linear models to get
> xi: glm LOS  lapscopic i.appdgn age agesq cons, eform("exp(b)")
> link(power -1) nocons
>
>
> Tony
>
> Peter A. Lachenbruch
> Department of Public Health
> Oregon State University
> Corvallis, OR 97330
> Phone: 541-737-3832
> FAX: 541-737-4001
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maarten buis
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:49 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Interpretation of regressionmodel of ln-transformed
> variable
>
> --- roland andersson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It is also difficult to imaging that there should be censoring
>> for conditions that normally need 1 to 7 days of hospital visit.
>
> Ok, sounds reasonable.
>
>> Following your example I have made this model
>>
>> xi:regress lnLOS  lapscopic i.appdgn age agesq cons, eform("exp(b)")
>> nocons
>>
>> and get this result
>>
>> lnLOS         exp(b)      [95% Conf.  Interval]
>> lapscopic     1.018056    1.004532    1.031762
>> _Iappdgn2_1   1.850726    1.824841    1.876978
>> _Iappdgn2_3   1.174283    1.147247    1.201956
>> age           .9852508    .9841405    .9863623
>> agesq         1.000275    1.000261    1.000289
>> cons          2.208685    2.168225    2.2499
>>
>> I now understand that the exp(b) is a multiplicator, ie that open
>> appendectomy has a geometric mean LOS of 2.21 days whereas
>> laparoscopic patients have 1.02*2.21=2.25 days or 0.04 days longer
>> geometric mean LOS. Is it correct to recalculate the CI of this
>> difference as 2.21-1.0045*2.21=0.01 and 2.21-1.032*2.21=0.07?
>
> In that case I would use -adjust- and -nlcom- like in the example
> below:
>
> *--------------- begin example --------------------------
> sysuse cancer, clear
> gen ln_t = ln(studytime)
> gen cons = 1
> xi: reg ln_t i.drug age cons, nocons eform("exp(b)")
>
> adjust _Idrug_3=0 age, by(_Idrug_2) exp ci
> sum age if e(sample)
> nlcom exp((_b[cons] + _b[age]*`r(mean)')+ _b[_Idrug_2]) -  ///
>      exp((_b[cons] + _b[age]*`r(mean)'))
> *---------------- end example ---------------------------
>
> Notice that the difference in LOS now depends on the values of the
> other explanatory variables. These other variables define the baseline
> LOS (in your case the LOS for someone who received an open
> appendectomy). So if you haven't mean centered age, then the difference
> in geometric mean LOS you reported applies to newly born babies. You
> can report the difference in geometric mean LOS for someone of average
> age either by first mean centering age (subtract the mean age from the
> variable age as I did in the example in my previous post), or take mean
> age into account like in the example above.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Maarten L. Buis
> Department of Social Research Methodology
> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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> 1081 HV Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
>
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