Re: st: Population attributable fractions (PAFs) in discrete-time survival analysis. -punaf-

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Yes, you can use -punaf- after a generalized linear model (GLM) with a 
complementary log-log link and a binomial error function. Or after any 
other GLM that gives positive-valued conditional expectations (which 
includes proportions and also Gamma and inverse-Gaussian means).

For proportional-hazard models (and also for case-control data), there 
is a package -punafcc-, which you can also download from SSC, and which 
estimates population attributable hazard factions (after 
proportional-hazard regressions), or population attributable fractions 
(after logit regressions on case-control data).

Angelo has not given the Samuelsen & Eide (2008) reference on PAHFs in 
full. However, I would guess that the PAHFs of that reference would be 
either the same as, or similar to, those produced by -punafcc-. I would 
very much like to know the full reference, so I can read it and find out 
more.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger

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On 01/07/2013 00:13, Angelo Belardi wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am working on discrete-time proportional hazard models with a
> non-parametric baseline hazard function, using -cloglog- in
> person-period formatted datasets.
>
> I would like to additionally calculate population attributable
> fractions (PAFs) in these models.
> However, I have never worked with PAFs in survival analyses before and
> therefore don't know
> which functions to use and how to correctly interpret the results.
>
> Previously, I calculated PAFs in STATA with the -punaf- package from
> Roger Newson, e.g.
> for logistic regressions.
>
> Can I use -punaf- here as well, just after calculating the estimates
> over -cloglog-?
>
> Or is there another function/package for this situation?
>
> Or would it be better to calculate population attributable hazard
> fractions (PAHFs) as described in Samuelsen & Eide (2008)?
>
>
> Thanks for any help or advice on the subject.
>
> Regards,
> Angelo
>
>
> Ref:
> S. O. Samuelsen, G. E. Eide, Statist. Med. 27, 1447 (2008).
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.3022/abstract
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