Omnibus tests for comparison of competing risks with adjustment for covariate effects
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Published on: September 16, 2022
I W McKeague1, P B Gilbert, P J Kanki
1Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306, USA. mckeague@stat.fsu.edu
Abstract:
This article develops omnibus tests for comparing cause-specific hazard rates and cumulative incidence functions at specified covariate levels. Confidence bands for the difference and the ratio of two conditional cumulative incidence functions are also constructed. The omnibus test is formulated in terms of a test process given by a weighted difference of estimates of cumulative cause-specific hazard rates under Cox proportional hazards models. A simulation procedure is devised for sampling from the null distribution of the test process, leading to graphical and numerical technques for detecting significant differences in the risks. The approach is applied to a cohort study of type-specific HIV infection rates.
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