[R] competing risk model with time dependent covariates under R or Splus

2008-07-27 Thread BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
This message was also sent to the MEDSTATS mailing list, so here is the reply I posted to that: Philippe, The machinery to use is to split follow-up time so finely that you can safely assume that rates are constant in each interval, and then just stuff it all into a Poisson model. This allows

[R] competing risk model with time dependent covariates

2008-07-26 Thread phguardiol
Dear R users, is there a way, I mean a package, to perform a competing risk model which can handle time dependent covariates ? my main covariate (additional treatment to patients) appears not to follow the proportional hazards assumption, its effect being observed after one year of treatment