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Re: st: Test for significance of the difference between knee locations?
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Yuval Arbel <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Test for significance of the difference between knee locations?
Date
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:45:45 +0200
I forgot to mention that Age_sq is AgexAge
If i'm not mistaken Jordan is from the medical field
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Roger B. Newson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the "knee" of a quadratic model? I never knew that they had knees
> (although I might expect a 3-parameter linear spline to have a knee).
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
> Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
> Lecturer in Medical Statistics
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>
> Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.
>
>
> On 18/10/2012 21:25, Jordan Silberman wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stata folks,
>>
>> I'm searching for a method I can run in Stata that will allow me to
>> test whether the location of the knee for one quadratic model
>> significantly differs from that of another quadratic model.
>>
>> I have 2 quadratic models, each modeling a different category of
>> healthcare costs as a function of age. Let's say, for illustrative
>> purposes, that the knee of the first quadratic model occurs at age 45,
>> and the knee for the second model occurs at age 55.
>>
>> Can anybody suggest a method for testing whether the former "knee age"
>> differs significantly from the latter "knee age?" The idea is to test
>> the hypothesis that there is a difference across the 2 models in the
>> age at which the costs growth rate begins to increase.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jordan
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Dr. Yuval Arbel
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