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Re: st: Adjusted Prevalence from Logistic models


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected], <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Adjusted Prevalence from Logistic models
Date   Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:18:11 -0500

At 01:18 AM 10/24/2012, Dean Eurich wrote:
Hi all,

A simple question. If I run a logistic model:

logistic BB age sex rural

I get the OR for the effect of rural (which is a flag for rural=0 or urban=1 dwelling) on the use of beta blockers (medication used to treat cardiovascular disease).

A reviewer has asked for us to present the adjusted prevalence for the use of BB by rural and urban status. I am not to sure how to do this.

I assume I could use the 'margin' command.

So would it be as simple as

 margins rural, atmeans

(Although I realize I could do it as specific levels of sex and age as well)

Thanks

Dean

I'm not totally sure how you want to adjust. But if you want to use -margins- you should use factor variable notation, e.g.

logistic BB age i.sex i.rural
margins rural, atmeans

In general, I am not crazy about the atmeans option, and I especially don't like it when you have a variable like sex in the model. You'll be plugging in something like .5 for sex (the average person is half male, half female?) I'd rather use the default -asobserved- or plug in specific values or ranges of values for the other variables. For some highlights of what you can do with margins, see

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats/Margins01.pdf

As a sidelight, when you say rural=0 or urban=1, that sort of sounds to me like heads I win, tails you lose. Aren't rural=0 and urban=1 the same thing?

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