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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2009 Sep 30;28(22):2748–2768. doi: 10.1002/sim.3640

Table II.

Estimation of the difference between cumulative incidence functions for cause 1 at (x1, z1) = (1, .5) and (x2, z2) = (0, .5).

time
Censoring = 30% 0.1 0.20 0.3 0.40 0.50 0.60 [.1, .6]
n = 100 Bias 0.0041 0.0084 0.0109 0.0124 0.0147 0.0296
SD 0.0534 0.0660 0.0705 0.0727 0.0738 0.0759
ESD 0.0533 0.0651 0.0700 0.0725 0.0737 0.0745
CP 93.0 93.1 93.5 93.6 94.4 92.4 92.8
n = 250 Bias −0.0020 −0.0033 −0.0023 −0.0006 0.0025 0.0181
SD 0.0362 0.0448 0.0498 0.0517 0.0530 0.0534
ESD 0.0348 0.0423 0.0452 0.0466 0.0474 0.0479
CP 94.8 93.4 93.8 94.2 93.8 93.6 94.6

time
Censoring = 50% 0.1 0.20 0.3 0.40 0.50 0.60 [.1, .6]

n = 100 Bias 0.0027 0.0102 0.0136 0.0185 0.0232 0.0378
SD 0.0553 0.0689 0.0773 0.0818 0.0831 0.0862
ESD 0.0548 0.0675 0.0735 0.0767 0.0787 0.0799
CP 92.8 92.3 92.4 92.4 92.7 91.4 92.6
n = 250 Bias 0.0039 0.0050 0.0062 0.0074 0.0089 0.0230
SD 0.0355 0.0438 0.0498 0.0516 0.0553 0.0581
ESD 0.0350 0.0434 0.0473 0.0494 0.0508 0.0517
CP 93.7 95.3 93.9 93.5 94.1 93.5 94.4