Cancer registries are often interested in estimating net survival (NS), the probability of survival if the cancer under study is the only possible cause of death. Pohar Perme, Stare, and Esteve (2012, Biometrics 68: 113–120) proposed a new estimator of NS based on inverse probability...

Competing risks are present when the patients within a dataset could experience one or more of several exclusive events and the occurrence of any one of these could impede the event of interest. One of the measures of interest for analyses of this type is the cumulative incidence function....

Simulation studies are essential for understanding and evaluating both current and new statistical models. When simulating survival times, one often assumes an exponential or Weibull distribution for the baseline hazard function, with survival times generated using the method of Bender,...