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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2015 Nov 19;72(2):546–553. doi: 10.1111/biom.12435

Table 4.

Parameter estimates and their standard errors using Taylor linearization methods

Piecewise-Poisson regression
Cox regression
Estimate Standard error P-value Estimate Standard error P-value
Age (years)
α1 [55–75) −6.318 1.627 <0.001
α2 [75–80) −5.914 1.598 <0.001
α3 [80–85] −5.219 1.636 0.001
LogIGF1 −0.160 0.317 0.614 −0.235 0.320 0.464
BMI (kg/m2)
 Overweight (25–30) 0.225 0.286 0.431 0.167 0.285 0.557
 Obese (≥30) 0.571 0.327 0.081 0.439 0.319 0.169
Smoking status
 Current smokers −0.096 0.417 0.817 −0.186 0.418 0.657
 Former smokers 0.013 0.242 0.957 −0.008 0.240 0.972
Family history −0.261 0.409 0.524 −0.368 0.466 0.407
Diabetes −0.381 0.450 0.397 −0.386 0.424 0.385
D’Amico score
 Medium 0.858 0.361 0.017 0.927 0.349 0.008
 High 2.191 0.327 0.000 2.242 0.313 0.000
 Very high/metastatic 4.262 0.366 0.000 4.346 0.326 0.000