{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/cumulative-incidence-function-estimation","title":"Cumulative Incidence Function Estimation Based on Population-Based Biobank Data","arxiv_id":"2403.18464","date":"2024-03-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Malka Gorfine","David M. Zucker","Shoval Shoham"],"abstract":"Many countries have established population-based biobanks, which are being used increasingly in epidemiolgical and clinical research. These biobanks offer opportunities for large-scale studies addressing questions beyond the scope of traditional clinical trials or cohort studies. However, using biobank data poses new challenges. Typically, biobank data is collected from a study cohort recruited over a defined calendar period, with subjects entering the study at various ages falling between $c_L$ and $c_U$. This work focuses on biobank data with individuals reporting disease-onset age upon recruitment, termed prevalent data, along with individuals initially recruited as healthy, and their disease onset observed during the follow-up period. We propose a novel cumulative incidence function (CIF) estimator that efficiently incorporates prevalent cases, in contrast to existing methods, providing two advantages: (1) increased efficiency, and (2) CIF estimation for ages before the lower limit, $c_L$.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18464v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.18464v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"cumulative-incidence-function-estimation","repo_url":"https://github.com/david-zucker/illness-death","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}