Re: Recurrent Event Counting Process

Posted by lts1 on Nov 01, 2006; 8:57pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Recurrent-Event-Counting-Process-tp1071824p1071827.html

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
[hidden email]



----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Boadi" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Recurrent Event Counting Process

> What book will you recommend for somebody who want to learn R ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of
> Butler, Deborah {FLNA}
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:30 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Recurrent Event Counting Process
>
>
> 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-----
> From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
> Gene Maguin
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:43 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Recurrent Event Counting Process
>
> 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
>