A set of SAS macros for calculating and displaying adjusted odds ratios (with confidence intervals) for continuous covariates in logistic B-spline regression models

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-114

  Gregory, Martin ^a   Ulmer, Hanno ^b   Pfeiffer, Karl P ^b   Lang, Stefan ^c   Strasak, Alexander M ^b  

^a SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

B splines; Confidence intervals; Logistic regression; Odds ratios; SAS macro

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH; MACROS; MATERIALS HANDLING; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SPLINES; STANDARDS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

ARBITRARY NUMBERS; B-SPLINES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS; COVARIATES; DOSE RESPONSES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MASS INDEX; NON-PARAMETRIC; ODDS RATIOS; PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION MODELLING; SAS MACRO; STATISTICAL SOFTWARE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DOSE RESPONSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF-RATING ANXIETY SCALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ALGORITHMS; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 49949096478     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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