re: st: Dose-response analysis

["Airey, David C" <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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I don't see how anyone can answer this question 
without more information, sorry.

To me it sounds like you need to posit a mean function 
for your dose response and some amount of error about 
that mean function before you can begin to answer your 
question.



> Dear All, 
> 
> I am looking at data from a pilot study which aims to assess whether  patients who receive intervention have lower depression scores at follow-up compared to those in the control condition.  I can use a cut-off value to identify those participants who had improved scores at follow-up from those who did not so that I can create a binary variable which codes 'improvers' vs. 'non-improvers'. What I would like to do next is establish what is the minimum number of sessions that patients need to attend to fall under the 'improver' category (dose-response?). 
> 
> Can anyone recommend a Stata command that allows me to do so? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Francesca


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