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md_a
2013 Apr 30
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Fastbw() function: grouping of variables
...... option seems to only work for pre-specified variables and does not solve my problem. In the case of the comorbidites, the variables are not mutually exclusive, so I would be very difficult to recode them as a factor variable with multiple levels.
Examples:
fit1 <-lrm(outcome~age + gender + med_a + med_b + med_a:med_b, x = TRUE, y = TRUE, data = example)
fastbw(fit1, type = "residual).
--> fastbw may drop med_a and keep the med_a:med_b interaction instead.
fit2 <-lrm(outcome~age + gender + comorb_a + comorb_b + comorb_c + other predictors, x = TRUE, y = TRUE, data = example)
fa...