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Re: st: Population Attributable Fraction/punaf: Diagnostics for Wide CIs
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Roger Newson <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Population Attributable Fraction/punaf: Diagnostics for Wide CIs
Date
Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:22:38 +0100
Fat confidence intervals for PAFs are usually caused by fat confidence
intervals for the corresponding population unattributable fraction
(PUF), which in turn are caused by high standard errors for the linear
combination of log odds and/or log odds ratios whose sampling
variability determines the sampling variability of the PUF. These, in
turn, may be caused by the fact that the kind of subjects in the fantasy
scenarios invlved are not well reperesented in the real-world sample.
For instance, if a sample contains very few non-smokers, then there will
usually be a fat confidence interval for the difference that would be
made to disease prevalences if the whole world stopped smoking.
I cannot comment any further on your case in particular, as I have not
seen your data. However, a standard rule of thumb for logistic
regression is to divide the number of events or non-events (whichever is
smaller) by the number of parameters estimated, and check whether if
this ratio is less than 5. If so, then you probably are trying to
estimate too many parameters with your available data.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes
Roger
Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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On 12/07/2011 09:54, [email protected] wrote:
Hello,
I am using [punaf] to calculate the Population Attributable Fractions
(PAF) from a logistic regression, and have checked models with
Hosmer-L, AIC/BIC, and deltabeta residuals.
I am getting very broad CIs eg, 22% (4 to 37%) for multiple risk
factors and multiple related models.
Are there any methods to determine if these ranges are due to
inherently noisy survey data, or indicate simply inappropriate /
unstable models?
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