On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:51:49 -0700 Shige Song <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I want to thank both Roberto and Jesper for their great comments (and
> sorry for not being to do this sooner because I was bounced out the
list > for no obvious reasons).
> > I have something else to say about the the AFT vs. PH. Based on
what I > know, there is no way to parameterize ordinary log-logistic
hazard model > (as implmented in Stata and many other packages) as PH.
But TDA > implements an extension of the ordinary log-logistic hazard
model > proposed by Bruederl&Diekmann (1995). They replace the scale
parameter > with two that represent the "timing effect" and the
"intensity effect". > The timing effect can only be parameterized as
AFT, but the intensity > effect can be parameterized either as AFT and
PH. >
> Again, thank you very much for the comments. >
> Shige Song > Department of Sociology, UCLA
> > Reference:
> Bruederl, J., and A. Diekmann. 1995. "The Log-Logistic Rate Model - 2
Generalizations with an Application to Demographic-Data." Sociological
Methods & Research 24:158-186.
A footnote following the clear and helpful explanations of Bobby
Gutierrez ...
Not having access to the original Bruederl and Diekmann paper, I'm not
clear how the PH/AFT distinction and scale/intensity distinctions
were made in the context of their model. But, according to Blossfeld &
Hamerle (2002, pp. 198-9), the B/D model can be written:
hazard rate r(t) = b(at)^(b-1) a, b, c > 0
c -----------
1 + (at)^b
survivor fn G(t) = 1/ [1 + (at)^b]^(c/a)
which may be contrasted with their parameterisation of the 'standard'
log-logistic model:
hazard rate r(t) = b(a^b)(t)^(b-1) a, b > 0
-----------
1 + (at)^b
survivor fn G(t) = 1/ [1 + (at)^b]^(c/a)
Thus in the 'extended' B/D model there is an additional parameter c,
which might depend on covariates. So, taking 2 cases i and j with the
same a, b, and t, but different c, then the ratio of their hazard
rates would be c_i/c_j ... which is sort-of PH-like.
Blossfeld, H.-P., and Rohwer, G. (2002) Techniques of event history
modeling : new approaches to causal analysis, Lawrence Urbaum
Associates.
NB Rohwer is the author of TDA, information about which can found at
http://www.stat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/tda
I prefer Stata
Stephen
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