survival analysis-competing events model

Posted by Maguin, Eugene on May 07, 2012; 2:36pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/survival-analysis-competing-events-model-tp5691244.html

An analysis problem is coming up that involves program discharge to one of three states: more restrictive environment, no change (same as current program), less restrictive environment. If I ignore time to discharge, I expect to be able to use either an ordinal logistic/probit or a multinomial logistic (spss plum or nomreg). But, suppose I want to bring in time to discharge and convert the model to a competing events model. Spss has no competing events capability but Allison, I think, showed that discrete time survival could be done with using logistic regression. I was thinking that the same method could be applied when using nomreg. Am I thinking incorrectly? Can anyone offer any references for this sort of analysis?

Thanks, Gene Maguin

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