[R] Competing risks Kalbfleisch & Prentice method

[Arthur Allignol]

I don't think there is a package to do that.

But you could have a look at ?predict.crr.

Best regards,
Arthur Allignol

Eleni Rapsomaniki wrote:
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> Dear R users
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> I would like to calculate the Cumulative incidence for an event
> adjusting for competing risks and adjusting for covariates. One way to
> do this in R is to use the cmprsk package, function crr. This uses the
> Fine & Gray regression model. However, a simpler and more classical
> approach would be to implement the Kalbfleisch & Prentice method (1980,
> p 169), where one fits cause specific cox models for the event of
> interest and each type of competing risk, and then calculates incidence
> based on the overall survival.  I believe that this is what the cuminc
> function in the aforementioned package does, but it does not allow to
> adjust for a vector of covariates.
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> My question is, is there an R package that implements the Kalbfleisch &
> Prentice method for competing risks with covariates?
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> for example, if k1 is the cause of interest among k competing causes:
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> P_k1(t; x)=P(T<=t, cause=k1|x)=Sum(u=0, ..., u=t) {hazard_k(u;x)*S(u;x)}
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> where S(u;x) = exp{-sum_of_k(sum(hazard_k(u))}
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> I have searched extensively for an implementation of this in many
> packages, but it appears that more complex approaches are more commonly
> implemented, such as timereg package. 
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> Eleni Rapsomaniki
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> Research Associate
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> Strangeways Research Laboratory
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> Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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> University of Cambridge
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