Table 4.

Data analysis of the EA-IeDEA study sample

Covariate	Proposed MPPLE			AIPW
	$exp({\widehat{\beta }}_n)$	95% CI	p value	$exp({\widehat{\beta }}_n)$	95% CI	p value
Disengagement from care
Sex (male $=1$, female $=0$)	1.15	(1.02, 1.31)	0.022	1.24	(0.69, 2.23)	0.462
Age (10 years)	0.75	(0.70, 0.80)	0.001	0.58	(0.40, 0.85)	0.004
CD4 (100 cells/$\mathrm{\mu }$l)	1.03	(1.00, 1.06)	0.094	1.17	(0.97, 1.42)	0.104
Death while in care
Sex (male $=1$, female $=0$)	1.24	(0.96, 1.59)	0.094	1.14	(0.95, 1.37)	0.157
Age (10 years)	1.10	(0.97, 1.25)	0.153	0.99	(0.87, 1.13)	0.926
CD4 (100 cells/$\mathrm{\mu }$l)	0.76	(0.63, 0.91)	0.003	0.78	(0.68, 0.89)	0.001

MPPLE: maximum pseudo partial likelihood estimator; AIPW: augmented inverse probability weighting estimator; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval for the cause-specific hazard ratio $exp({\beta }_0)$