Re: Recurrent Event Counting Process

Posted by Eric Janssen on Nov 02, 2006; 2:16pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Recurrent-Event-Counting-Process-tp1071824p1071829.html

> 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.

Check:
Allison P. D. (1984) "Event history analysis. Regression for longitudinal event
data", Sage University Paper #46, Series Quantitative Applications in the
social sciences.

Allison P. D. (1982) "Discrete-time methods for the analysis of event histories"
in S. Leinhardt (ed.) Sociological Methodology, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp.
61-98.
A quite comprehensive introduction of the method.

Goodies:
- you can use the time IV as linear or categorical;
- you can apply multinomial logreg;
- no need to check equiprobablity assumptions as in Cox model
Baddies:
- an event may occur more than once within a single time interval - but there
are tricks to manage it properly.

Doug Massey and colleagues used discrete time event analysis in their studies of
the Mexican Migration project data base - a technique applied in Mexico for
other longitudinal surveys (EDER and ERMEU).