Dear ALL,
Literature search is rather inconclusive on wether low birth weight
(LBW)babies suffer more episodes of malaria than normal birth weight (NBW)
babies. "To conform", one has to say LBW babies suffer more episodes than
NBW babies.
I am analsying a cohort of infants to find out if LBW infants suffer more
episodes of malaria than NBW babies. By inspecting my survival curves, it
seems LBW babies suffer less than NBW babies throughout infancy.
I have twice as many NBW babies than LBW babies in my data set. I am
thinking that the bigger number of NBW babies in the data set in
influencing the out come (the non conforming outcome). Any suggestions on
what I should do to take care of the imbalance in the sample sizes between
the two groups.
Boniface Kalanda
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