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SUBMITTER: Gerds TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4547456 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gerds Thomas A TA Scheike Thomas H TH Andersen Per K PK
Statistics in medicine 20120802 29
In survival analysis with competing risks, the transformation model allows different functions between the outcome and explanatory variables. However, the model's prediction accuracy and the interpretation of parameters may be sensitive to the choice of link function. We review the practical implications of different link functions for regression of the absolute risk (or cumulative incidence) of an event. Specifically, we consider models in which the regression coefficients β have the following ...[more]