On 6/3/2011 12:32 PM, Federico Calboli wrote:
On 3 Jun 2011, at 11:27, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:
this sounds like a competing risks problem. Maybe you would be interested in a
cause-specific hazard regression or the Fine& Gray model
(http://cran.r-project.org/package=cmprsk).
I will look into that,but, biologically, parkinson leads to dementia (cause and
effect rather than competing risk), and in fact all my subjects do have
parkinson. Unless the two competing risks are 'risk of dementia' vs 'risk of
death'.
Yes, this what I mean. Either you could be interested in the composite
event dementia or death, whatever comes first, or you could be
interested only in dementia, in which case death could be considered a
competing risk.
Best,
Dimitris
Best
F
Recently there was also a special issue in JSS on this topic
(http://www.jstatsoft.org/v38).
I hope it helps.
Best,
Dimitris
On 6/3/2011 12:17 PM, Federico Calboli wrote:
I am writing to get a better handle on a warning I am getting from a coxph
analysis I am doing.
I am analysing age of onset of dementia *after* the onset of parkinson disease.
My data looks like:
age.park age.dem age.death censor x1 x2 x3 x4
1 76 87 88 0 16 33 E3 E3
2 75 84 84 0 33 36 E3 E3
3 77 81 81 1 NA NA<NA> <NA>
4 65 65 69 0 NA NA E4 E4
5 56 76 79 0 NA NA<NA> <NA>
6 62 72 72 1 NA NA<NA> <NA>
...
Obviously some individuals (lines 1,2,5) will first develop parkinson, then a
few years later, dementia. Some individuals will not develop dementia (lines 3
and 6, where age of death and age of dementia correspond, but the censor
variable is 1). Some (more) unluky individuals develop parkinson and dementia
at the same time (line 4).
my coxph model looks like
coxph(Surv(age.mot,age.dem, censor) ~ x1 + x2 + x3 + x4, mydata)
and I get the warning:
In Surv(age.mot, age.dem, censor) :
Stop time must be> start time, NA created
I am almost sure that this is due to the instances where age.park == age.dem,
but there is nothing I can really do. So my question:
how do I deal with the instances where age.park == age.dem in order to keep
those individuals in the analysis and to get sensible results?
Best wishes
Federico
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Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus
Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193
f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk
f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com
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Dimitris Rizopoulos
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Erasmus University Medical Center
Address: PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Tel: +31/(0)10/7043478
Fax: +31/(0)10/7043014
Web: http://www.erasmusmc.nl/biostatistiek/
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