Dear people:
may I present a situation very usual, indeed one that already happened to
me, a possible way to handle it and the question whether the conduct is
reasonable:
1. the data come from official registry;
2. the outcome is birth weigth, coded 0 for normal and 1 for low, no
missing;
3. the model is logistic (just for simplify, since it was used glm poisson
robust as an estimate of the prevalence ratios);
4. var1, var2, var3, var4 with very very few missings (let´s say less than
2%);
5. var5, with 4 categories, but with about 20% missing answers;
6. var6, same as var5;
7. var5 received then 5 categories: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4, the same original ones
and 5, when missing;
8. tab(var5), gen(var5);
9. same for var6;
10. any of var51 or var52 or var53 or var54 is used as reference, the
others, including var55 are in the command ;
11. same for var 61, var62 etc.
12. the command is logistic weigth var1 var2 var3 var4 var52 var53 var54
var55 var62 var63 var64 var65;
13. in the analysis var55 and var65 are placeholders, but their odds ratios
may be useful.
The question: may this be used, is it too difficult to accept? Is it a
situation for using -ice-?
Excuse me for so long post.
JNosé Maria
Jose Maria Pacheco de Souza, Professor Titular (aposentado)
Departamento de Epidemiologia/Faculdade de Saude Publica, USP
Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 715
01246-904 - S. Paulo/SP - Brasil
fones (11)3061-7747; (11)3768-8612
fax (11)3714-2403
www.fsp.usp.br/~jmpsouza
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