Research Article

Application of Cox Proportional Hazards Model in Case of Tuberculosis Patients in Selected Addis Ababa Health Centres, Ethiopia

Table 7

Results of the multivariable proportional hazards Cox regression model containing the main and interaction effect.
(a)

Testing global null hypothesis: bETA = 0
Test Chi-SquareDFPr > ChiSq

Likelihood ratio42.6252 4<0.0001
Score45.1009 4<0.0001
Wald40.3081 4<0.0001

(b)

Analysis of maximum likelihood estimates
Covariates DFParameter estimateStandard errorChi-Square Pr > ChiSq Hazard ratio95% HR Conf. limit

Age10.02745 0.00760 13.0603 0.0003 1.028 1.013 1.043
TBC1−0.54298 0.23231 5.4629 0.0194 0.581 0.369 0.916
HIV12.29131 0.50215 20.8209 <0.0001 9.888 3.695 26.457
Age * HIV1−0.04028 0.01354 8.8468 0.0029 0.9610.935 0.986
The value of for the model is 1340.347