Date:         Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:42:35 -0500
Reply-To:     Robert Kelly <rkelly2@IBM.NET>
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From:         Robert Kelly <rkelly2@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: odds ratios in crosstabs
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I have also been wondering about this. SPSS does not seem to be able to
produce odds ratios unless it is in a 2X2 table. I have been using epiinfo
and epicalc to perform these calculations.
 
Robert Kelly
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD   USA
 
At 05:05 PM 2/12/99 -0600, Nichols, David wrote:
>CROSSTABS will produce the stratum specific odds ratios if you use control
>variables, but it won't lay them out just like that for you.
>
>David Nichols
>Principal Support Statistician and
>Manager of Statistical Support
>SPSS Inc.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Parise, Carol A. [SMTP:PariseC@SUTTERHEALTH.ORG]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 12:39 PM
>> To:   SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
>> Subject:      odds ratios in crosstabs
>>
>> Can anyone tell me if there's a way to tweek SPSS to get stratum specific
>> odds ratios within CROSSTABS when an exposure level has more than one
>> level?
>>
>> For example, i want to look at the odds of surgery given a score on a pain
>> scale  within age and sex categories and i'd like output that would look
>> something like this:
>>
>> age 1-layer
>>                 Surgery
>>
>>                  Yes    No
>>
>>       Score1
>>
>>       Score 2       OR1            OR2
>>
>>       Score 3       OR3            OR4
>>
>>       Score 4        OR5            OR6
>>
>>
>> ...where each of the OR1 would be the odds of having surgery for subjects
>> in
>> the 1st age group given  Score 2 compared to Score 1.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> carol parise
>> sacramento ca