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Weighted comparison of two cumulative incidence functions with R-CIFsmry package. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2014 Oct;116(3):205-14

Date

07/08/2014

Pubmed ID

24999008

Pubmed Central ID

PMC4285697

DOI

10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.05.008

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84904503257 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   5 Citations

Abstract

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 MJ

Author

Mei-Jie Zhang PhD Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Algorithms
Comorbidity
Computer Simulation
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Incidence
Models, Statistical
Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted
Odds Ratio
Programming Languages
Risk Assessment
Software