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Thank you all for the quick response. The resounding answer seems to be
that SPSS is unable to handle recurrent event counting process. The
R seems to be an interesting option. But Deborah, what do you mean by R
> It also accepts Matlab code. You could start here in learning it:
>
http://www.r-project.org/ Just get in and start using it!
>
>Just a word of caution, R uses memory only and does not write to disk,
>therefore, it is NOT helpful for those of us with large datasets and
>large data manipulations. This is one of the reasons why a professional
>package such as SPSS is worth the money! I like the versatility of it,
>however, and plan to use it concurrently with SPSS for special projects.
>I also like that it is free. ;)
>
>
>Debbie Butler
>SCP Modeling Analyst
>Frito Lay Operations
>
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>Lisa Stickney
>Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:58 PM
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>Hi Edward,
>
> A few years ago I was using both S+ & R (the open source version of
>S+),
>and I found "The Basics of S-Plus" by Krause & Olson to be useful for a
>beginner. HTH.
>
> Best,
> Lisa
>
>Lisa T. Stickney
>Ph.D. Candidate
>The Fox School of Business
> and Management
>Temple University
>
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>----- Original Message -----
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>Subject: Re: Recurrent Event Counting Process
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>
>> What book will you recommend for somebody who want to learn R ?
>>
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>> Butler, Deborah {FLNA}
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:30 PM
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>>
>> If SPSS cannot handle it, I would suggest R. It's a freeware package
>-
>> very powerful. You'll need to download a specific package, but I've
>no
>> doubt it could handle it.
>>
>>
http://www.r-project.org/>>
>>
>> Debbie Butler
>> SCP Modeling Analyst
>> Frito Lay Operations
>> 972.334.3934
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>Of
>> Gene Maguin
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:43 AM
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>> Asrul,
>>
>> The simple answer No. You can't run this kind of analysis directly.
>That
>> said, I wonder if spss can't be made to run it. My idea is based on
>the
>> fact
>> that a discrete time survival analysis can be restructured to be
>solved
>> using ordinary logistic regression. At least one reference for this is
>> Paul
>> Allison. It seems to me that a competing risks model might be
>> restructured
>> to be solvable using either ordinal logistic regression or multinomial
>> logistic regression. However, I have never seen anybody do this nor
>have
>> I
>> read about doing this. I'm not a statistician so there's lots of
>things
>> I
>> don't know about this. If you haven't gotten a reply perhaps somebody
>> who
>> has done this kind of model would reply to the list. I think that
>Hector
>> had
>> a problem that involved this kind of analysis a while back.
>>
>> All that said, you can do this sort of problem using other software,
>> notably, Mplus, Mlwin, perhaps, HLM or SAS. You might want to look at
>> Judith
>> Singer's book, Applied longitudinal data analysis to see if she has
>> anything
>> about this sort of analysis in there. There may also be free software
>> that
>> can do this analysis. I'd investigate Hedeker's programs.
>>
>> Good luck, Gene Maguin
>>