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Establishing a Competing Risk Regression Nomogram Model for Survival Data
Published on: October 23, 2020
A proportional hazards regression model for the subdistribution with right-censored and left-truncated competing
Xu Zhang1, Mei-Jie Zhang, Jason Fine
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. matxxz@langate.gsu.edu
Abstract:
With competing risks failure time data, one often needs to assess the covariate effects on the cumulative incidence probabilities. Fine and Gray proposed a proportional hazards regression model to directly model the subdistribution of a competing risk. They developed the estimating procedure for right-censored competing risks data, based on the inverse probability of censoring weighting. Right-censored and left-truncated competing risks data sometimes occur in biomedical researches. In this paper, we study the proportional hazards regression model for the subdistribution of a competing risk with right-censored and left-truncated data. We adopt a new weighting technique to estimate the parameters in this model. We have derived the large sample properties of the proposed estimators. To illustrate the application of the new method, we analyze the failure time data for children with acute leukemia. In this example, the failure times for children who had bone marrow transplants were left truncated.
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