Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Dieter Menne
Barry Rowlingson wrote: * SAS CODE FOR SCORING 36-ITEM HEALTH SURVEY 1.0 ... Thanks, Barry, but there was a mistake from my side: I am looking for SF-8. Anyone else? Google was not successful for me Dieter -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Frank Harrell
I know someone who has R code for SF-36 and perhaps SF-12. Aren't there copyright issues relating to SF-* even if it is reprogrammed? Frank - Frank Harrell Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Frank Harrell wrote: I know someone who has R code for SF-36 and perhaps SF-12. Aren't there copyright issues relating to SF-* even if it is reprogrammed? Frank Yep...

Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Dieter Menne
Frank Harrell wrote: I know someone who has R code for SF-36 and perhaps SF-12. Aren't there copyright issues relating to SF-* even if it is reprogrammed? You are right. I was not aware of this, and I could not believe it first that a company holds the right to use an almost trivial

Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Frank Harrell
Yes the company behind that probably received federal funds for some of the research and has been very careful to minimize their contribution to the community. I didn't understand your parenthetical remark. Frank - Frank Harrell Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University -- View

Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Joshua Wiley
If it's not possible to use their particular algorithms, does anyone think it would be helpful/practical to try to write a general scoring system? I imagine a function with arguments for column names, a list where each element is a vector that indicates the numbers that correspond to various

Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Joshua Wiley wrote: If it's not possible to use their particular algorithms, does anyone think it would be helpful/practical to try to write a general scoring system? I imagine a function with arguments for column names, a list where each element is a vector

Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread peter dalgaard
On Sep 13, 2010, at 15:59 , Joshua Wiley wrote: If it's not possible to use their particular algorithms, does anyone think it would be helpful/practical to try to write a general scoring system? I imagine a function with arguments for column names, a list where each element is a vector that

Re: [R] SF-8 (not 36) questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Joshua Wiley
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Marc Schwartz marc_schwa...@me.com wrote: On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Joshua Wiley wrote: If it's not possible to use their particular algorithms, does anyone think it would be helpful/practical to try to write a general scoring system?  I imagine a function