Transcript Statistics
Statistics
April 23, 2009
Tim Bunnell, Ph.D. & Jobayer Hossain, Ph.D.
Nemours Bioinformatics Core Facility
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Odds
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The odds in favor of an event (e.g. occurrence of a disease) is
the ratio of the probabilities of the event occurring to that of not
occurring, i.e., p/(1-p)
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where p is the probability of the event occurring
If probability of an event is 0.6 (i.e., it is observed in 60% of the
cases) then the probability of it not occurring is (1 - 0.6) = 0.4
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The odds in favor of the event occurring is thus 0.6/0.4 = 1.5
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The greater the odds of an event, the greater it’s probability
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Calculating odds for a 2x2 table
Response Variable
Predictor Variable
Cancer
No Cancer
Total
Smokers
a
b
a+b
Non- Smokers
c
d
c+d
a+c
b+d
N=a+b+c+d
Total
The proportion of smokers with cancer: p = a/(a+b)
(this is the likelihood of smokers having cancer)
The proportion of smokers without cancer: 1-p = b/(a+b)
(this is the likelihood of smokers not having cancer)
The odds of smokers having cancer: p / (1 - p) = (a/(a+b))/(b/(a+b)) = a/b
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Calculating odds for a 2x2 table
Response Variable
Predictor Variable
Cancer
No Cancer
Total
Smokers
a
b
a+b
Non-Smokers
c
d
c+d
a+c
b+d
N=a+b+c+d
Total
The proportion of non-smokers with cancer: p = c/(c+d)
The proportion of non-smokers without cancer: 1-p = d/(d+d)
The odds of cancer among non-smokers: (c/(c+d)) / (d/(c+d)) = c/d
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Odds Ratio
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The odds ratio of an event is the ratio of the odds of the event
occurring in one group to the odds of it occurring in another group.
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Let p1 be the probability of an event in group 1 and p2 be the
probability of the same event in group 2. Then the odds ratio (OR) of
the event in these two groups is:
p1 /(1 p1 )
OR
p2 /(1 p2 )
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The odds ratio is a measure of effect size
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Odds Ratio
• In the previous example,
Cancer
No Cancer Column Total
Smokers
a
b
a+b
Non- Smokers
c
d
c+d
Row Total
a+c
b+d
N=a+b+c+d
The odds of cancer among smokers is a/b
The odds of cancer among non-smokers is c/d
a
ad
So, the odds ratio of cancer among smokers vs non-smokers b
c bc
d
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Odds Ratio
Estimating odds ratio in a 2x2 table
Cancer
No Cancer
Smokers
120
80
200
Non- Smokers
60
140
200
180
220
N=400
The odds of cancer in smokers is 120/80 = 1.5 and the odds of cancer
in non-smokers is 60/140 = 0.4286 and the ratio of two odds is,
120 / 80 120 x140
OR
3.5
60 / 140
60 x80
Interpretation: The risk of cancer is 3.5 times greater for smokers
compared to non-smokers (in this sample)
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Odds Ratio
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The odds ratio must be greater than or equal to zero.
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As the odds of the first group approaches to zero, the odds ratio
approaches to zero.
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As the odds of the second group approaches to zero, the odds ratio
approaches to positive infinity
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An odds ratio of 1 indicates that the condition or event under study
is equally likely in both groups. In our example, that would mean no
association between cancer and smoking was observed.
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Odds Ratio
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An odds ratio greater than 1 indicates that the condition or
event is more likely in the first group. In the previous example,
an odds ratio of 2 means that cancer is 2 times more likely in
smokers compared to non-smokers
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An odds ratio less than 1 indicates that the condition or event is
less likely in the first group. In our example, an odds ratio of 0.8
would mean that the cancer is 20% (i.e., 1 - 0.8) less likely in
smokers compared to non-smokers
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R-demo: Odds ratio (from 2 x 2
contingency table)
• Install Package epitools for odds ratio
• Load epitools: >library(“epitools”)
• Input data in previous example:
• x<-matrix(c(120,60,80,140), 2, 2)
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oddsratio(x, method="wald")
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R-demo: Odds ratio - Output
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> oddsratio(x, method="wald")
$data
Outcome
Predictor Disease1 Disease2 Total
Exposed1
120
80
200
Exposed2
60
140
200
Total
180
220
400
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$measure
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$p.value
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$correction
[1] FALSE
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attr(,"method")
[1] "Unconditional MLE & normal approximation (Wald) CI"
odds ratio with 95% C.I.
Predictor estimate
lower
upper
Exposed1
1.0
NA
NA
Exposed2
3.5 2.313230 5.295625
two-sided
Predictor
midp.exact fisher.exact
chi.square
Exposed1
NA
NA
NA
Exposed2 1.467097e-09 2.298090e-09 1.637296e-09
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R-demo: Odds ratio (from raw data)
• Categorize the outcome variable PLUC.post in two groups (high
and low PLUC groups) .
– Data management -> Manage variable in active data set ->
Bin numeric variable ->From this window: pick variable to bin
(e.g. PLUC.post ), Name the new variable (e.g. Newvar),
Select number of bins (e.g. 2), select binning method (e.g. kmeans clustering)
• oddsratio(data$Ped, data$Newvar, method="wald"), where
Newvar is the categorized outcome variable and Ped is also a
categorical variable with pediatrician 1 and 2.
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R-demo: Odds ratio - Output
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> oddsratio(data$Ped, data$Newvar, method="wald")
$data
Outcome
Predictor 0 1 Total
0
12 18
30
1
16 14
30
Total 28 32
60
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$measure
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$p.value
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$correction
[1] FALSE
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attr(,"method")
[1] "Unconditional MLE & normal approximation (Wald) CI"
odds ratio with 95% C.I.
Predictor estimate
lower
upper
0 1.0000000
NA
NA
1 0.5833333 0.2095645 1.623737
two-sided
Predictor midp.exact fisher.exact chi.square
0
NA
NA
NA
1 0.3166258
0.4378954
0.300623
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Logit of p
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The logit of a number P between 0 and 1 is log(P/1-P). It is
defined by logit(P)
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If P is the probability of an event, then P/1-P is odds of that
event and logit(P) is the log(odds) = log(P/1-P).
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The difference between the logits of two probabilities is the log
of the odds ratio (OR).
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log (OR) = log p1 /(1 p1 ) log p1 log p2 logit ( p1 ) logit ( p2 )
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The logit scale is linear and functions much like a z-score
p2 /(1 p2 )
1 p1
scale.
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1 p2
Logit of p
• Logit is a continuous score in the range - to
• p = 0.50, then logit = 0.0
p = 0.70, then logit = 0.85
p = 0.30, then logit = -0.85
• The standard deviation of logit is sqrt(1/a + 1/b + 1/c + 1/d).
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Logistic Regression
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Recall: For a categorical variable, we focus on number or proportion for
each category.
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Proportion of a category simply says about how likely to happen that
category
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Suppose, y is a variable that represent occurrence or not occurrence of
cancer (two categories only).
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And y=1 indicates occurrence and y=0 indicates (not occurrence).
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Let, p=likelihood of the event (y=1), so 1-p = likelihood of the event
(y=0).
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We want to relate p or (1-p) i.e. likelihood of happening or not
happening, instead the response y itself), with an independent variable
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Logistic Regression
Plot of two variables: An outcome variable (say cancer happening/not
happening ) and an independent variable (say age)
Signs of coronary disease
Yes
Could we use a linear
regression?
No
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20
40
60
AGE (years)
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80
100
Logistic Regression
Plot of proportions for different ages
1.0
Likelihood of cancer
0.8
Likelihood of cancer increases with
an increasing age
0.6
Relationship: not linear
0.4
0.2
0.0
Age (in years)
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Linear vs. Logistic Function
Logistic Regression
• Recall: Simple linear regression:
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y = b0 + b1x, where y is a continuous quantitative outcome
variable, x is a quantitative/categorical variable.
• Like y, logit is a quantitative variable, and we can replace y by
logit of p where p is the likelihood of an event
• That is, log(p/(1-p)) = log (odds) = b0 + b1x, which is simple
linear regression between log(p/(1-p)) =log(odds) and the
independent variable x (say age).
• Association patterns with log(odds) are the same as the patterns
with odds itself.
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Logistic Regression
• log(p/1-p) = log (odds of cancer) = b0 + b1*age
• Interpretation of b1: change of log odds of cancer for 1 year
change of age.
• Let us consider two persons of ages 55 and 56, then,
• log (odds of cancer at age 55) = b0 + b1*55
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log (odds of cancer at age 56) = b0 + b1*56
• The difference, log(odds at 56) – log (55) = b1
odds at 56
b1 log
log(odds ratio)
odds at 55
Odds ratio exp(b1 )
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Logistic Regression
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b1=0 (or equivalently odds ratio exp(b1) =1), indicates no association of
log(Odds of cancer) with the variable age (X).
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b1>0, indicates a positive association of log(Odds of cancer) with the
variable age (X).
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b1<0, indicates a negative association of log(Odds of cancer) with the
variable age (X).
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If 95% confidence interval (CI) of b1 does not contains 0 (the null
hypothesis), it indicates that the independent variable has an
significant influence on the response variable at 5% level of
significance.
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b0 is the intercept
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Logistic Regression
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exp(b1)= 1, No association of response with predictor. For categorical
predictor, an event is equally likely in both reference as well as
comparative group.
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exp(b1)>1, indicates that an event is more likely to the comparative
group compare to the reference group.
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exp(b1)<1, indicates that an event is less likely to the comparative
group compare to the reference group.
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If 95% CI of odds ratio contains 1, it indicates that likelihood of an event
two groups are significantly different at 5% level of significance.
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Rcmdr demo: Logistic Regression
• Statistics -> Fit models -> Generalized linear model > from this window ( under the model formula, select
dependent variable (e.g. Newvar) ~ independent (e.g.
age), family – binomial, link – logit.
• Newvar is the categorical form of the variable
PLUC.post (Details in the example for odds ratio)
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Simple Logistic Regression: Rcmdr output
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Call:
glm(formula = Newvar ~ age, family = binomial(logit), data = data)
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Deviance Residuals:
Min
1Q Median
-1.246 -1.233
1.109
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Coefficients:
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(Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
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Null deviance: 82.911
Residual deviance: 82.906
AIC: 86.906
3Q
1.123
Max
1.131
Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept) 0.0818711 0.8222250
0.100
0.921
age
0.0005715 0.0086349
0.066
0.947
on 59
on 58
degrees of freedom
degrees of freedom
95% CI for the coefficient of age is 0.0005715 2*0.0086349 = (-0.0166983, 0.0178413)
In terms odds ratio: Odds ratio = exp (0.0005715) = 1.000572
95% CI for the odds ratio is (exp(-0.0080634), exp(0.0092064)) = (0.991969, 1.009249)
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Simple logistic regression: Rcmdr output
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Call:
glm(formula = Newvar ~ Ped, family = binomial(logit), data = data)
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Deviance Residuals:
Min
1Q Median
-1.354 -1.121
1.011
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Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept)
0.4055
0.3727
1.088
0.277
Ped[T.1]
-0.5390
0.5223 -1.032
0.302
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(Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
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Null deviance: 82.911
Residual deviance: 81.836
AIC: 85.836
3Q
1.011
on 59
on 58
Max
1.235
degrees of freedom
degrees of freedom
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Logistic Regression
• Outcome (response) variable is binary
• Independent variable (predictor) can be either categorical or
quantitative
• Relationship of outcome variable and predictor (s) is not linear
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Multiple Logistic Regression
• More than one independent variables in the model i.e.
• log(p/1-p) = b0 + bx1 + bx2
• Interpretation: the same as it is for the simple logistic regression
• Response variable is binary
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Multinomial and Ordinal Logistic
Regressions
• Multinomial: The response (outcome) variable is
multicategorical (e.g. race- Caucasian, African
American, Hispanic, Asian etc).
• Ordinal: Categories of the response (outcome)
variable can be ranked or order (e.g. disease
condition: mild, moderate, and severe)
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Thank you
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