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RE: st: RE: McNemar's test with clustering (Somers D comparisons)
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RE: st: RE: McNemar's test with clustering (Somers D comparisons)
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Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:12:07 -0500
Roger -
So in your proposed -somersd- analysis, would you use within, between or vonmises comparisons? With a continuous outcome, I would think that if you want to "remove" the twin effect, the comparisons should be within-cluster. However with a dichotomous predictor and outcome, there might be too many pairs with both responses the same, giving essentially no information. So in view of this would the vonmises comparisons with clustered standard errors be the best way? Or perhaps just between-cluster comparisons?
Al Feiveson
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Newson
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 12:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: McNemar's test with clustering
Yes, you could treat twin pairs as a block. However, as we are sampling
twin pairs from a population of twin pairs, I would still cluster by
twin pair, whether I was using -clogit- or -somersd-.
The -somersd- method has the advantage that it outputs a difference
between proportions. I think more people understand those than
understand odds ratios, although odds ratios are useful for estimating
relative risks in a case-control study.
Best wishes
Roger
Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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On 26/04/2010 18:36, Lachenbruch, Peter wrote:
> Could you treat the members of the twin pairs as a block in a randomized block fashion? The clogit idea sounds pretty good
>
> Tony
>
> Peter A. Lachenbruch
> Department of Public Health
> Oregon State University
> Corvallis, OR 97330
> Phone: 541-737-3832
> FAX: 541-737-4001
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laura Gibbons
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:10 AM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: Re: st: RE: McNemar's test with clustering
>
> Sorry this wasn't clear. For this analysis, I'm just interested in the
> men as individuals, are their right and left sides different. If I had a
> continous outcome (and no twinship to consider), I'd use a paired t-test.
>
> But the sample happens to be (for other reasons) twins, so I need to
> adjust errors (p-values) for the correlation between twins.
>
> Pair Twin Left Right
> -----------------------------
> 1 1 1 0
> 1 2 1 1
> 2 1 0 0
> 2 2 1 0
>
> something like that, where I wan't to compare Left and Right, and Pair is
> a nuisance variable to me.
>
> thank you! Laura
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Lachenbruch, Peter wrote:
>
>> I seem to be missing something here. If you take the within-pair
>> difference aren't you removing the pair effect? You can make the same
>> argument for a dichotomous response. In this case the difference will be
>> -1, 0, or 1. You could do a t-test on this (variance would be slightly
>> off) or you could look at the table of responses and test if the
>> proportion of -1s is the same as the proportion of +1s. May need to do
>> this by hand, but should be simple. What is the clustering variable if
>> not pairs?
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> Peter A. Lachenbruch
>> Department of Public Health
>> Oregon State University
>> Corvallis, OR 97330
>> Phone: 541-737-3832
>> FAX: 541-737-4001
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laura Gibbons
>> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 6:39 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: st: McNemar's test with clustering
>>
>> I'd like to do something like McNemar's test, -mcc-, where I'm comparing
>> presence of two dichotomous traits in each person. [In this case, is a
>> finding more common on the left side of the spine, compared to the right.]
>>
>> The problem is that the subjects are twins, in this analysis a nuisance
>> parameter, but svyset or cluster(pair) are not options for mcc.
>>
>> For continuous outcomes I can get the equivalent of a paired t-test by
>> computing the difference and then getting the p-values from the intercept
>> in
>>
>> reg difference, cluster(pair)
>>
>> but I've not come up with anything along these lines either.
>>
>> Any guidance would be appreciated, thanks!
>>
>> -Laura
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>> General Internal Medicine, University of Washington
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Laura E. Gibbons, PhD
> General Internal Medicine, University of Washington
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