Thanks.:)


On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Heinz Tuechler <tuechler@gmx.at> wrote:

> 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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