Let continuous outcome variables remain continuous

DOI10.1155/2012/639124MaRDI QIDQ428288zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Enayatollah Bakhshi, Brian McArdle, Kazem Mohammad, Behjat Seifi, Akbar Biglarian

Publication date 19 June 2012

Published in Computational \& Mathematical Methods in Medicine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/639124

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Generalized linear models (logistic models) (62J12)

Review text

Summary: The complementary log-log is an alternative to the logistic model. In many areas of research, the outcome data are continuous. We aim to provide a procedure that allows the researcher to estimate the coefficients of the complementary log-log model without dichotomizing and without loss of information. We show that the sample size required for a specific power of the proposed approach is substantially smaller than the dichotomizing method. We find that estimators derived from the proposed method are consistently more efficient than the dichotomizing method. To illustrate the use of proposed method, we employ the data arising from the NHSI.

Recommendations

• Discrimination between the complementary log-log and logistic model for ordinal data
• Complementary log-log regression for the estimation of covariate-adjusted prevalence ratios in the analysis of data from cross-sectional studies
• A study of the effect of dichotomizing ordinal data upon modeling
• Robust binary regression with continuous outcomes
• Bias and efficiency loss due to categorizing an explanatory variable.

Cites work

• APPLICATIONS OF THE NON-CENTRAL t-DISTRIBUTION
• Approximation Theorems of Mathematical Statistics
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1817585 (Why is no real title available?)
• Strong consistency of least squares estimates in multiple regression

This page was built for publication: Let continuous outcome variables remain continuous

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q428288)