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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lifetime Data Anal. 2013 May 31;20(2):234–251. doi: 10.1007/s10985-013-9260-x

Table 2.

Simulation results of calibration: the ratio of the observed and expected number of events

Marginalized Conditional Known frailty
m m1 CR PNCR NCR CR PNCR NCR CR PNCR NCR
event type r = 1 is singled out
Prediction at 10-year interval
Whole 23204 3312 0.988 0.798 0.876 0.990 0.852 0.949 0.968 0.834 0.966
Non-carriers 21164 3059 1.023 0.838 0.909 1.021 0.898 0.986 1.053 0.865 0.966
Carriers 2040 253 0.989 0.506 0.611 0.989 0.527 0.658 0.989 0.584 0.781
Prediction at 15-year interval
Whole 23204 4325 0.992 0.769 0.848 1.007 0.799 0.894 0.992 0.801 0.929
Non-carriers 21164 4024 0.994 0.810 0.884 1.004 0.845 0.934 0.993 0.834 0.953
Carriers 2040 301 0.968 0.457 0.549 1.056 0.461 0.573 0.986 0.521 0.689

event type r = 2 is singled out
Prediction at 10-year interval
Whole 23204 4147 1.002 0.873 0.932 1.006 0.882 0.945 0.988 0.884 0.973
Non-carriers 21164 3172 0.977 0.868 0.932 1.005 0.901 0.976 0.897 0.883 0.980
Carriers 2040 975 0.996 0.893 0.933 1.001 0.823 0.857 0.980 0.886 0.949
Prediction at 15-year interval
Whole 23204 5244 1.005 0.846 0.910 0.967 0.841 0.910 0.999 0.867 0.949
Non-carriers 21164 4128 1.012 0.839 0.911 0.992 0.853 0.933 1.007 0.792 0.956
Carriers 2040 1116 0.981 0.856 0.907 0.886 0.854 0.826 0.973 0.861 0.922

m - total number of counselees; m1 - number of events;

CR - the competing risks based method; PNCR - ignoring competing risks only at prediction; NCR - ignoring competing risks at estimation and prediction.