Re: st: Help please re Ocratio

["Jon Heron (ALSPAC)" <Jon.Heron@bristol.ac.uk>]

thanks Anders,


Armstrong and Sloan (1989). Ordinal Regression Models for Epidemiological
Data. AJE, V129, #1.

Manor, Matthews and Power (2000) Dichotomous or categorical response?
Analysing self-rated health and lifetime social class. IJE, V29, 149-157

Greenland (1994) Alternative models for ordinal logistic regression.
Stats in Medicine, V13, 1665-1677.


best wishes



Jon



--On 30 October 2007 08:50 -0400 Anders Alexandersson 
<andersalex@gmail.com> wrote:


> Please provide complete references. Rory Wolfe's command -ocratio-
> uses a "forward stopping" continuation ratio model, P[Y=j|Y>=j] (i.e.,
> like "Armstrong and Sloan" below), but with reverse sign of the slope
> compared with logistic regression on expanded data so that the sign of
> the slope is the same as in the usual proportional odds model.
>
> Anders Alexandersson
> andersalex@gmail.com
>
> Jon Heron (ALSPAC) <Jon.Heron@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> >  I would like to fit a continuation ratio model to a 6-level outcome
> >  using ocratio. I would then like to assess the constancy of model
> >  parameters by fitting a series of logistic models
> >
> >  A quick lit search is showing variability in which comparisons are being
> >  made with a CR model.
> >
> >   e.g. for 3-level outcome - 1/2/3
> >
> >   Armstrong and Sloan (1989)
> >     1 versus 2 & 3
> >     2 versus 3
> >
> >   Manor, Matthews and Power (2000)
> >     1 versus 2
> >     1 & 2 versus 3
> >
> >   Greenland (1994)
> >     2 & 3 versus 1,2 & 3
> >     3 versus 2 & 3
> >
> >  I imagine these are all permitted alternatives, but i would like to know
> >  which particular comparisons are made using ocratio so I can fit the
> >  appropriate logistic models.
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