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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2017 Oct 2;37(1):82–97. doi: 10.1002/sim.7498

Table 1.

Simulation results for the log-subdistribution hazard ratio (SHR) and cause-specific cumulative incidence function (CIF) for cause 1 from a proportional subdistribution hazards models with two competing causes and one binary covariate X.

Log-SHR = -0.5 CIF for Cause 1
Year 1 Year 3 Year 5
  N Code Converged (%) Bias Coverage rMSE Bias Coverage rMSE Bias Coverage rMSE Bias Coverage rMSE
200 fg 100.0 -0.0295 0.9640 0.2691 -0.0004 0.9420 0.0383 -0.0004 0.9530 0.0464 -0.0003 0.9580 0.0503
3df 95.7 -0.0248 0.9613 0.2645 0.0018 0.9592 0.0369 -0.0020 0.9540 0.0447 0.0026 0.9530 0.0502
4df 96.0 -0.0266 0.9625 0.2633 0.0003 0.9542 0.0375 -0.0000 0.9573 0.0451 0.0013 0.9510 0.0501
5df 92.2 -0.0287 0.9642 0.2633 0.0016 0.9469 0.0382 -0.0006 0.9501 0.0454 0.0013 0.9523 0.0502
6df 93.0 -0.0255 0.9613 0.2639 0.0002 0.9473 0.0378 -0.0007 0.9473 0.0456 0.0004 0.9527 0.0502
9df 79.2 -0.0262 0.9684 0.2592 0.0012 0.9470 0.0378 0.0012 0.9558 0.0458 0.0022 0.9558 0.0498

500 fg 100.0 -0.0111 0.9600 0.1697 -0.0009 0.9620 0.0248 -0.0008 0.9540 0.0297 -0.0010 0.9580 0.0320
3df 100.0 -0.0101 0.9600 0.1668 0.0017 0.9560 0.0241 -0.0024 0.9600 0.0282 0.0020 0.9660 0.0314
4df 100.0 -0.0115 0.9600 0.1674 0.0001 0.9500 0.0246 -0.0002 0.9580 0.0284 0.0005 0.9620 0.0315
5df 99.0 -0.0130 0.9596 0.1675 0.0008 0.9556 0.0247 -0.0008 0.9616 0.0285 0.0002 0.9636 0.0314
6df 97.4 -0.0124 0.9589 0.1683 -0.0003 0.9610 0.0244 -0.0003 0.9610 0.0289 -0.0002 0.9589 0.0315
9df 97.8 -0.0127 0.9611 0.1680 -0.0003 0.9591 0.0245 -0.0004 0.9611 0.0290 -0.0003 0.9611 0.0316

5000 fg 100.0 0.0012 0.9570 0.0550 -0.0009 0.9560 0.0077 -0.0009 0.9450 0.0097 -0.0010 0.9510 0.0104
3df 100.0 0.0027 0.9560 0.0531 0.0009 0.9750 0.0073 -0.0026 0.9510 0.0094 0.0019 0.9370 0.0104
4df 100.0 0.0014 0.9560 0.0532 -0.0007 0.9550 0.0074 -0.0007 0.9600 0.0092 0.0002 0.9550 0.0103
5df 100.0 0.0011 0.9560 0.0532 0.0001 0.9600 0.0075 -0.0015 0.9630 0.0093 -0.0002 0.9560 0.0103
6df 100.0 0.0009 0.9560 0.0533 -0.0009 0.9600 0.0075 -0.0008 0.9600 0.0093 -0.0005 0.9560 0.0103
9df 100.0 0.0008 0.9560 0.0533 -0.0008 0.9660 0.0076 -0.0007 0.9600 0.0094 -0.0007 0.9560 0.0103