Weighted comparison of two cumulative incidence functions with R-CIFsmry package. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2014 Oct;116(3):205-14
Date
07/08/2014Pubmed ID
24999008Pubmed Central ID
PMC4285697DOI
10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.05.008Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84904503257 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 5 CitationsAbstract
In this paper we propose a class of flexible weight functions for use in comparison of two cumulative incidence functions. The proposed weights allow the users to focus their comparison on an early or a late time period post treatment or to treat all time points with equal emphasis. These weight functions can be used to compare two cumulative incidence functions via their risk difference, their relative risk, or their odds ratio. The proposed method has been implemented in the R-CIFsmry package which is readily available for download and is easy to use as illustrated in the example.
Author List
Li J, Le-Rademacher J, Zhang MJAuthor
Mei-Jie Zhang PhD Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AlgorithmsComorbidity
Computer Simulation
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Incidence
Models, Statistical
Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted
Odds Ratio
Programming Languages
Risk Assessment
Software