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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2010 Nov 10;29(25):2569–2580. doi: 10.1002/sim.4017

Table 2.

Estimated Effect of SADT

Method and Matching Variables Strata Size* Hazard Ratio 95% CI
Two-Stage:
 NA NA 0.24 (0.17, 0.33)
Sequential Stratification:
PSA, location
 0.2 Threshold 11.0 (1.0, 112.2) 0.29 (0.19, 0.43)
 0.5 Threshold 28.0 (3.0, 281.4) 0.33 (0.23, 0.47)
 1.0 Threshold 73.0 (7.2, 508.4) 0.44 (0.32, 0.61)
 10-NN 11.0 (11.0, 11.0) 0.28 (0.20, 0.40)
PSA, sPSA, location
 0.2 Threshold 3.0 (1.0, 30.0) 0.26 (0.15, 0.45)
 0.5 Threshold 13.0 (1.0, 159.2) 0.25 (0.17, 0.38)
 1.0 Threshold 42.0 (4.0, 370.8) 0.31 (0.22, 0.45)
 10-NN 11.0 (11.0, 11.0) 0.29 (0.21, 0.41)
PSA, sPSA, LTP, location
 0.2 Threshold 1.0 (1.0, 6.0) 0.37 (0.16, 0.87)
 0.5 Threshold 5.0 (1.0, 71.8) 0.24 (0.15, 0.38)
 1.0 Threshold 28.0 (2.0, 297.8) 0.31 (0.21, 0.44)
 10-NN 11.0 (11.0, 11.0) 0.27 (0.19, 0.39)
*

Strata size is given by: median (5th, 95th percentiles)

Abbreviations: PSA indicates matching on standardized log(PSA + 0.1), sPSA indicates matching on standardized slope of log(PSA + 0.1), and LTP indicates matching on standardized long-term phase coefficient.