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Re: st: Hazard ratios to rates.


From   Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Hazard ratios to rates.
Date   Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:14:29 -0800 (PST)

Thank you Steve and Enzo.


Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician 
Oklahoma City, OK


--- On Wed, 12/17/08, Enzo Coviello <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Enzo Coviello <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: Hazard ratios to rates.
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 1:21 AM
> Steven Samuels ha scritto:
> > Hazard ratios compare two distributions, but you want
> to know something about one of the distributions.  It is the
> same as if you had asked: "I know the ratio of two
> numbers is 2:1.  What is one of them?"
> > 
> > So,unless you have more information, the answer to
> your question is "No".
> 
> I would add that a Cox model makes available an estimate of
> the cumulative hazard and after we can use -stcurve- to
> obtain an estimate of the hazard at some specified value.
> See -stcurve-.
> 
> 
> Enzo
> 
> 
> > 
> > -Steve
> > 
> > On Dec 16, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Ricardo Ovaldia wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> Is there a way to convert hazard ratios from
> survival to rates such as number of deaths per 10,000?
> >> 
> >> For example if for treatment A compare to a pacebo
> the HR=1.3, I know that there is 30% increase risk of
> failure under treatment A. However, can I say what the rate
> per 1000 patients would be? For example: X patient per 1000
> will die on treatment A
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