We present a new SAS macro %PSHREG that can be used to fit a proportional subdistribution hazards (PSH) model (Fine and Gray, 1999) for survival data subject to competing risks. The macro is described in our accompanying publication (Kohl et al, 2015).
References
Kohl, M., Plischke,M., Leffondré,K., Heinze,G. (2015): "PSHREG: A SAS macro for proportional and nonproportional subdistribution hazards regression", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.11.009)
The macro and its documentation are available at the github repository https://github.com/georgheinze/PSHREG.
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