Ernest,
This is just descriptive work and I'm not testing a hypothesis - once I have
this graph I hope to be able to get the half-life from the graph.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest Berkhout [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 01 September 2003 16:40
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: repeated measures at two time points
At 17:12 1-9-2003, you wrote:
>I hope someone can give me some pointers. I have data on a few individuals
>(n=12) and for each person I have two measurements.
>
>The first was made at the last time of exposure (the calendar date differs
>for each person)
>The second was made on the same calendar date.
>
>So the follow-up differs for each person, (mean (sd) follow-up 89 (108)
>months). So follow-up varies a lot.
>
>
>I can graph these two-time points for all individuals: with the x-axis
being
>time since last(final) exposure and the actual measurement value on the
>y-axis.
>This produces a graph with 12 straight lines all starting at time 0 and
>ending at different points.
>
>
>Now my question is - how can I summarise these 12 "lines". I need to get
>one curve/line.
What is your null hypothesis? Can't you just plot the _difference_ in
measurement value against the _difference_ in days between measurement and
follow-up? You get 12 points in which may seem to indicate some
relationship between followup-time and measurement-difference. Although
significance should be considered carefully with such a small sample, I
guess.
Ernest Berkhout
SEO Amsterdam Economics
University of Amsterdam
Room 3.08
Roetersstraat 29
1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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