The histogram is highly left-skewed, basically the same as the one after running proc univariate for hisugbev. Do you think then what I suggested would still be a reasonable idea?
I would simply make sure I have a fair share of uncensored events in each category.
Good luck!
PG
Does anyone know by any chance how to create quantiles with a certain portion of data? I told my professor that creating tertiles would be one way to work with the data I have for hisugbev but another way she suggested was have all the people who have 0 for this variable go in one group and then with the remaining people put them into tertiles. I have never done this before. Thanks!
Why categorize them anyways, why not use the continuous variable?
Making some very broad assumptions here:
hisugbev is probably high sugar beverage consumption, I'll assume weekly.
I would categorize as
0 - no consumption
<7 - less than 1 a day
<14 -less than 2 a day
>=14 2 or more a day
This gives you intuitive data.
The thing about using the continuous form is that you are assuming linearity which may or may not be true in the actual dataset. I modeled hisugbev in tertiles and I see that the difference in parameter estimates shows there is some non-linearity here which you wouldn't see if you modeled hisugbev as a continuous variable. I actually didn't try the categorization you suggested but I will give that a try! You are correct hisugbev is high sugared beverage consumption (servings/week)
What is the cross tab of censor and your new 4 level ranking?
Did you want to include referential coding?
You may also want to point explicitly to data=temp4
proc phreg data=temp4;
class hisugbev4 (ref='0')/param=REF;
model tpyrs*c5_1(0)= age hisugbev4/rl ties=efron;
run;
what happens when you run a proc freq, none of the cells are 0?
proc freq data =temp4;
table hisugbev4*c5_1;
run;
I tried putting in data=temp4 next to the proc phreg statement and ran the model again but nothing different..i get the same output.
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