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Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2020 Feb 10;116(535):1330–1345. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2020.1713792

Table 6:

Joint survival probability estimators (F^) for breast cancer incidence and total mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial (n = 48,835, with 1764 women with incident breast cancers, 2508 deaths, and 134 women with both breast cancer and death during the 8.5 year average trial intervention period).

Follow-up
Years for
Breast Cancer (T1)
Comparison Group (z = 0) Intervention Group (z = 1)
Follow-up Years for Mortality (T2) Follow-up Years for Mortality (T2)
3 6 9 3 6 9


3 F^ 0.979 0.961 0.936 0.980 0.962 0.937
95% CIa (0.978,0.980) (0.959,0.963) (0.933,0.939) (0.979,0.981) (0.960,0.965) (0.934,0.941)
95% CBb (0.975,0.983) (0.957,0.965) (0.932,0.940) (0.975,0.985) (0.957,0.968) (0.932,0.942)
6 F^ 0.965 0.947 0.923 0.967 0.949 0.925
95% CI (0.962,0.967) (0.945,0.950) (0.919,0.926) (0.965,0.969) (0.947,0.952) (0.921,0.929)
95% CB (0.961,0.968) (0.943,0.951) (0.919,0.926) (0.962,0.972) (0.944,0.954) (0.920,0.930)
9 F^ 0.951 0.933 0.909 0.954 0.937 0.912
95% CI (0.948,0.953) (0.930,0.936) (0.905,0.913) (0.951,0.957) (0.933,0.940) (0.908,0.917)
95% CB (0.947,0.955) (0.929,0.937) (0.905,0.913) (0.949,0.959) (0.932,0.942) (0.907,0.917)
a

95% confidence intervals for F given z based on 200 bootstrap replicates.

b

95% supremum-type confidence bands for F given z over the region [0, 9] × [0, 9] years, based on 200 bootstrap replicates.