Re: Recurrent Event Counting Process

Posted by Maguin, Eugene on Nov 01, 2006; 3:43pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Recurrent-Event-Counting-Process-tp1071824p1071830.html

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