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SUBMITTER: Zhou B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3372942 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Bingqing B Fine Jason J Latouche Aurelien A Labopin Myriam M
Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 20111031 3
A population average regression model is proposed to assess the marginal effects of covariates on the cumulative incidence function when there is dependence across individuals within a cluster in the competing risks setting. This method extends the Fine-Gray proportional hazards model for the subdistribution to situations, where individuals within a cluster may be correlated due to unobserved shared factors. Estimators of the regression parameters in the marginal model are developed under an ind ...[more]