Student Presentation: Tianying Wang

TIANYING WANG 

 

Ph.D. Student, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University

 

Categorizing a Continuous Predictor Subject to Measurement

 

ABSTRACT

Epidemiologists often categorize a continuous risk predictor, even when the true risk model is not a categorical one. Nonetheless, such categorization is thought to be more interpretable, and thus their goal is to fit the categorical model and interpret the categorical parameters. We address the question: with measurement error and categorization, how can we do what epidemiologists want, namely to estimate the parameters of the categorical model that would have been estimated if the true predictor was observed? We develop a general methodology for such an analysis, and illustrate it in linear and logistic regression. Simulation studies are presented and  the methodology is applied to a real data set.

 

 

Monday, 11/20/2017, 12:30 PM, BLOC 521