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