Introduces riskplot, a graphical tool for assessing the strength and consistency of multiple categorical risk factors.
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May aid visualization of categorical risks in analyses; leaves open clinical adoption pending validation studies.
In this article, we describe a command, riskplot, aiming to provide a visual aid to assess the strength, importance, and consistency of risk factor effects. The plotted form is a dendrogram that branches out as it moves from left to right. It displays the mean of some score or the absolute risk of some outcome for a sample that is progressively disaggregated by a sequence of categorical risk factors. Examples of the application of the new command are drawn from the analysis of depression and fluid intelligence in a sample of elderly men and women.
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Falcaro et al. (2010) studied this question.
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