topic Re: Population attributable risks in SAS Programming

Population attributable risks

LostInSAS — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:17:58 GMT

Hello everyone

I just started using SAS less than a month ago so I'm having a bit of a hard time.

I'm assuming that there is a causal association between certain lifestyle factors (such as smoking status) and a certain health outcome (e.g: cancer). I want to calculate population attributable risks in order to estimate the proportion of certain health outcomes (proportion of cancer cases) attributed to different lifestyle factors.
Could you please provide me with a script?

Thanks a lot

Re: Population attributable risks

Reeza — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:56:12 GMT

i had to Google to see what you meant, does this look correct:

https://www.med.uottawa.ca/sim/data/PAR_e.htm

If so, start off with a PROC FREQ to calculate the RR. Check the documentation under examples for an example that illustrates how and the RR is calculated.

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/66703/HTML/default/viewer.htm#procstat_freq_examples05.htm

Re: Population attributable risks

Miracle — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:17:52 GMT

This may be useful too? Example 95.3 Computing Attributable Fraction Estimates.

Re: Population attributable risks

LostInSAS — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:04:32 GMT

Yes! Thank you 🙂

Re: Population attributable risks

LostInSAS — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:05:21 GMT

Thank you 🙂