• Survival analysis with competing risks

    From nardelli.silvia@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 11 07:40:30 2020
    Hi Andreas, is it possible to perform competitive risk analysis (using Fine and Gray model) with NCSS? Can you kindly explain me how can I do it?
    Thank you

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  • From Rich Ulrich@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 11 16:34:50 2020
    On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:40:30 -0700 (PDT), nardelli.silvia@gmail.com
    wrote:

    Hi Andreas, is it possible to perform competitive risk analysis (using Fine and Gray model) with NCSS? Can you kindly explain me how can I do it?
    Thank you

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    * Reply: That was a follow-on to the post from 2006, which my
    * provider (Giganews) still has available -
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    ... thanks very much! I was just thinking about getting NCSS which
    offers a
    competing risks survival analysis ...

    Andreas.
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    * Reply: That, in turn, was a reply to this Q&A -
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    Competing risks with spss is not straightforward. It might be better
    to use stata or R. I struggled myself with it. Here are some helpful references:

    This article shows how to do simple competing risks models using cox regressions, you have to parts manually but ist is fairly
    straightforward:
    Lunn and McNeil (1995) Applying Cox regression to competing risk,
    Biometrics 1995 51,524-532*

    However, this method is said to be not the most sophisticated ones. I
    just saw a few days ago an tutorial on competing rsiks with examples
    in R but they mentioned that most can be doen in spss but "may require
    some extra effort regarding data prep and programming":

    Tutorial in biostatistics: competing risks and multi stage models
    Statistics in medicine in press (online availaible)


    Another overview paper is this one (with SAS syntax):

    STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
    Statist. Med. 2001; 20:661{684
    Competing risks analysis of patients with osteosarcoma:
    a comparison of four different approaches
    Bee-Choo Tai1; ? ; y, David Machin1; 2, Ian White3 and Val Gebski4

    Hope this helps a bit
    Dan iel

    Andreas Völp wrote:
    Does anybody know how to perform survival analysis with competing risks (e. g., death in remission when relapse is the event of interest) in SPSS?

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    Andreas Völp

    Psy Consult Scientific Services
    Frankfurt, Germany

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    Rich Ulrich

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