Hello all,
A colleague is investigating the possibility of
using a logisitic regression model to predict whether a
patient will have a heart attack in the future. Some of the predictive
variables are age, sex, current cholestoral level, etc.
However he would also like to include the number of previous heart
attacks as a predictive variable. Although i think it is right to
use such information would there not be a problem with the fact that
the outcome and predictive variables are 'related'?
If you have any thoughts or suggestions for papers/books dealing with
this subject i'd be very grateful if you post them directly to me.
I will post a summary of the replies to the list at a later date.
Thanks,
Simon
Simon Williams
Research Fellow
Department of Anaesthesia
Level 7
Bristol Royal Infirmary
BS2 8HW
Tel. 0117 9283169
Fax. 0117 9282098
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