Posted by
Butler, Deborah {FLNA} on
Nov 01, 2006; 6:30pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Recurrent-Event-Counting-Process-tp1071824p1071831.html
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
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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