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27th March 2011 at 3:00 pm #3606
Hassabo okasha
MemberHello everyone
I have data related to a cohort study
i have one dependent variable which is (Disease Status) with tow valus, With Disease And Without Disease
and two independent variables the first one is Weight for six months, which are Quantitative reading
and the second independent variable is Diagnosis test with tow valus( Positive & Negative) for the same six months, which are Qualitative reading.
My questions are:-
1- what is apropriate graph can i use to plot the relation between the dependent variable and independent variable with the six months, and what the steps to do that throug SPSS.
2- what the appropriate test should i use to show the risk of the independent variable on dependent variable
thank you
30th March 2011 at 11:11 pm #3612Hassabo okasha
MemberI am waiting for the help
2nd April 2011 at 7:14 am #3611Kristian Karlson
MemberYou should construct a life table and draw a graph of the Kaplan-Meier survival estimates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier_estimator.
If observations are recorded monthly (e.g., 6 times in total), you should estimate a discrete hazard model to learn about the effect of your independent variable on the dependent variable. A discrete hazard model is often estimated with a logistic regression model on the probability of leaving the sample, where the sample is censored panel data (censoring means, in brief, tat people are set to missing whenever they die, i.e., leave the sample). You may benefit from reading this: http://data.princeton.edu/wws509/notes/c7s6.html. Note that in the logistic regression the z-statistic associated with the independent variable will be a test of the effect of your independent variable on your dependent variable. One issue, however, is that surviving individuals will display autocorrelation. If you do not correct for autocorrelation, your standard errors will often be too small, and hence your z-statistic will often reject the null even when the null is true. In Stata you can correct for autocorrelation with the option -cluster()- in the logistic command (-logit-).
If your time is recorded on a continuous basis, you should go for a cox regression.
/Kristian
4th April 2011 at 1:52 pm #3610Sujeesh Kumar.S
MemberDear Hassabo,
you may run a scatter diagram to examine the relationship between the variables
Since your dependent variable is categorical, you can use the possiblity of logistic regression after considering the the second independent variablea as quantitative.you can also find the appropriate test from SPSS
10th April 2011 at 8:22 pm #3609Jeremy Miles
Participant1. I’m not sure what is meant by weight for 6 months. Is that one value, or a series of values?
2. Logistic regression.
11th April 2011 at 12:47 pm #3608Hassabo okasha
MemberThanks for everyone passed in my Topic
I want to clear the independent variables, as i told you i have two independent vars. weight & diagnostic
when my research contain 25 sample size or 25 opservations, so my data is like that
wieght1 wieght2 wieght3 …. wieght6 diagnostic1 diagonstic2 …. diagnostic6
1 22.4 20.4 18 12 yes yes no
2 14 11 22 34 no yes yes
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25 22 33 22 32 yes no yes
15th April 2011 at 1:03 am #3607Jeremy Miles
ParticipantThe most appropriate analysis sounds like a fixed effects regression, or possibly a random effects regression. These are both fairly tricky though, and (I would doubt) you’re going to be able to do them from the help you get on a message board.
Why do you want to do this analysis? If this is for a college assignment, or project, you need to find what is expected of you – your tutors probably won’t know what fixed effects regression is, and even if you manage to do it, you’ll need to explain it to them. If this is because you work in the field, you probably need to get professional help.
Sorry to be gloomy.
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