Date:         Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:53:49 -0500
Reply-To:     Kevin Viel <citam.sasl@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Kevin Viel <citam.sasl@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How to compute the covariate adjusted (e.g age/race/etc.)
              cumulative incidence rate in a competing risks scenario

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:46:36 -0800, Shawn Haskell
<shawn.haskell@STATE.VT.US> wrote:

>Pg 418 in Kleinbaum and Klein's Survival Analysis: a Self-Learning
>Text (2nd edtition) says: "...the computation of a CIC [cumulative
>incidence curve] is currently not included in mainstream commercially
>available statistical packages...(e.g., SAS, STATA, SPSS)".  Too bad
>becasue the assumption of independnet competing risks as for Kaplan-
>Meier does not seem to be similarly required for CICs.  Maybe someone
>has a macro.  SH

Mitch Klein was my advisor in graduate school until I found a committee
generous enough to host me.  I took several classes from David Kleinbaum.
It might be worth contacting one of them.  If you do develop a macro, it
might be worth sharing it with them.

-Kevin