Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.58.0402260746350.26046@homer19.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2004-02-26T15:48:40Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: variance estimator for the cumulative incidence function
In-Reply-To: <877CB986CDC7D5118C6000805FA7C70904DE53CD@uhnmail307.torhosp.toronto.on.ca>
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Pintilie, Melania wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I am using the package cmprsk in R to estimate the cumulative incidence
> function and its variance. In the manual it is mentioned that the variance
> is calculated based on Dr. Aalen's paper (1978, Nonparametric estimation of
> partial transition probabilities in multiple decrement models).
>
> I would appreciate if someone could provide me with a source where the
> variance is expressed in a more readable way, for example as a sum.
>
It may well be that the simplest thing is to read the source code.
Survival analysis has pretty much moved to counting process notation.
-thomas