topic Lin's Regression? in Statistical Procedures

Lin's Regression?

SusieQ324 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:35:11 GMT

I have a collegue who is insisting that we implement Lin's regression (Biostatistics (2000), 1, 1, pp. 35–47) for modeling costs with censored data. I've not heard of this before, nor have I been able to find applications that actually have coded this. Anyone been able to get this to work in SAS? It should be similar to PHREG I would think....

Thanks for your help!

Sue

Lin's Regression?

art297 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:49:16 GMT

I'm not familiar with it, but it may be amongst the macros provided at:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/~xlin/software.html

Also, a macro for obtaining Lin's correlation coefficient is provided in the mccc macro at:

http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/biostat/sasmacros.cfm

Lin's Regression?

Doc_Duke — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:56:12 GMT

Art,

Wrong Lin. Sue is referring to DY Lin (not X Lin). I missed it too the first time.

http://www.bios.unc.edu/~lin/

Here is the paper

http://www.bios.unc.edu/~lin/publications/2000/Lin00a.pdf

and a nice summary

http://www.ispor.org/news/articles/July07/CCD.asp

Lin's Regression is parametric, so I is probably not a variation on PHREG. However, I have not found any SAS software for it. There are several follow-on articles as well. You may want to contact DY directly, though my guess is that his software will be in R.

Doc Muhlbaier

Duke

Lin's Regression?

SusieQ324 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:39:47 GMT

Thanks. I hadn't seen anything on how to do it in SAS either but wasn't sure if anyone else had any experience using it. R would be fine (since it's open source) so I'll contact him directly and see what else I can gather. I have to admit tho, it doesn't leave me with a "warm-fuzzy" feeling when I can't find anything on how to program the method. Almost makes me hesitant to use it at all...but alas, that's not necessarily my call to make.

Thanks for the info!