[R] Comparing Cox model with Competing Risk model

[Heinz Tuechler]

Dear Terry,

as soon as the vignette is ready, I would be very happy, to know about 
it. Will you send a note to r-help, or will it be announced in some 
other way?

best regards,

Heinz

On 08.03.2013 15:12, Terry Therneau wrote:
> -- begin included message --
> I have a competing risk data where a patient may die from either AIDS or
> Cancer. I want to compare the cox model for each of the event of interest
> with a competing risk model. In the competing risk model the cumulative
> incidence function is used directly.
>
> -end inclusion ---
>   If you do want to persue the Fine-Gray model I would suggest using
> software that already exists.  Find the "Task Views" tab on CRAN, and
> follow it to "survival" and then look at the competing risks section.
> There is a lot to offer.  I would trust it more than rolling your own
> function.
>
>   As an aside, modeling the subdistribution function is ONE way of
> dealing with competing risks, but not everyone thinks that it is the
> best way to proceed.  The model corresponds to a biology that I find
> unlikely, though it makes for nice math.  Since the alternative is
> discussed in a vignette that I haven't-yet-quite-written we won't persue
> that any further, however. :-)
>
> Terry Therneau
>
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