Raoul--
I am not familiar with this use of the acronym AER, but I think the
right approach here depends on whether E in the formula is estimated
or assumed fixed. If E is the estimated mean of O, then you can
regress O/personyrs on age--the estimated constant will be E/personyrs
and the coef on age will be your estimate of trend in age. Like so:
. poisson o_pyrs age, r
. test age
On 5/2/07, raoul reulen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I have calculated absolute excess risks of death in a cohort of people
with cancer by calculating the observed (O) and expected (E) deaths
,and using the formulae:
AER = ((O-E)/person-years) * 10,000
This gives me the excess risk per year per 10,000 persons. I have done
this for various age groups and would like to use a test for trend to
see whether there is a significant increase in the risk. How do I do
this in STATA? I probably should use an additive model, but where can
I find more information? Hope this is clear.
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