surv.principal: Fit CIFs using principal stratum strategy for competing risks data

Description

This function nonparametrically estimates the potential cumulative incidence function using principal stratum strategy (competing risks data structure). The estimand is defined in a subpopulation where intercurrent events would never occur regardless of treatment conditions.

Usage

surv.principal(A, Time, cstatus, weights = rep(1, length(A)))

Value

A list including

time1: Time points in the treated group.
time0: Time points in the control group.
cif1: Estimated cumulative incidence function in the treated group.
cif0: Estimated cumulative incidence function in the control group.
se1: Standard error of the estimated cumulative incidence function in the treated group.
se0: Standard error of the estimated cumulative incidence function in the control group.
time: Time points in both groups.
ate: Estimated treatment effect (difference in cumulative incidence functions).
se: Standard error of the estimated treatment effect.
p.val: P value of testing the treatment effect, which is not available under this strategy.
cumhaz: Baseline cumulative hazards in the survival models.

Arguments

A: Treatment indicator, 1 for treatment and 0 for control.
Time: Time to event.
cstatus: Indicator of event, 1 for the primary event, 2 for the intercurrent event, 0 for censoring.
weights: Weight for each subject.

Details

The principal stratum strategy aims to stratify the population into subpopulations based on the joint potential occurrences of intercurrent events under the two treatment assignments (R(1), R(0)). Suppose we are interested in a principal stratum comprised of individuals who would never experience intercurrent events, regardless of which treatment they receive. This principal stratum can be indicated by \{R(1)=R(0)=\infty\}. The treatment effect is now defined within this subpopulation, \tau(t) = P(T(1) < t \mid R(1)=R(0)=\infty) - P(T(0) < t \mid R(1)=R(0)=\infty), representing the difference in probabilities of experiencing primary outcome events during (0,t) under active treatment and placebo in the subpopulation that will not experience intercurrent events regardless of treatment during (0,t). A principal ignorability assumption is made for identification. If the size of the target principal stratum is small, the results could be highly variable.

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