on 12/6/02 1:05 PM, ellen mastenbroek at [email protected] wrote:
> I have set out to do a survival analysis, but it has become clear that only 3
> % of the cases are censored. Is it advisable to then carry out regular OLS
> regression instead (the advantage being that OLS results are more easy to
> interpret)?
No. Your endpoint is binary. You want to figure out what effect does a
particular predictor have on the risk of an event happening. That's a hazard
ratio.
Start with Kaplan Meier graphs, which are even easier to interpret than OLS
regression, and work from there.
Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
Lecturer in Biostatistics
Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin 2, Ireland
+353 1 402 2431 (fax 2329)
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