[R] Re gression using age and Duration of disease as a continous factors

[Johannes Hüsing]

Mehdi Khan schrieb:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007310874X/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=304485901&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0256117365&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=155Y7AP1SHTSJESHM15M
>
> This is our textbook for regression analysis.  Go through the first 8 or 9
> chapters and you're good.
>
>   
I think he'd be ill-advised to do so.

Modelling the course of a disease is a very tricky problem whic 
definitely asks for a statistician with a couple of years experience 
under his belt, and more than just a few hours of his time. Perusing a 
book on regression may be a good thing to do in order to be able to 
communicate to the statistician, or solve some (considerably) simpler 
problem oneself, but it's like perusing a book of anatomy before your 
first surgical intervention.