Thank you Philip. Unfortunately all I have is the RR
and the corresponding SE. I was thinking that some
method out of the Meta-analysis literature could be
used.
--Ricardo.
--- Philip Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> One way might be to write out two separate models
> (eg logistic or
> log-binomial, depending on your research design) and
> then use -suest- to
> test for equality of the coefficients of the
> suitably parameterised
> exposures. For example, as a very general case
> where both the exposures
> and the outcomes are different (and the sense is
> rather open to question!)
>
> is the RR for lung cancer among smokers (vs
> non-smokers) different from the
> RR of heart disease among males (vs females):
>
> glm lung smoker, link(log) fam(binomial) score(s1)
> est store A
> glm heart sex, link(log) fam(binomial) score(s2)
> est store B
> suest A B
> test [A_lung]smoker = [B_heart]sex
>
>
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> At 09:56 AM 11/03/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >Is there a way in Stata to compare if two relative
> >risks are equal, or alternatively if the ratio of
> two
> >relative risks (RRR) is equal to one?
> >
> >Thank you in advance,
> >Ricardo.
> >
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