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  <dc:title>Stepwise Covariate Selection for the Fine &amp; Gray Competing Risks
Regression Model</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package crrstep version 2025.1.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Performs forward and backward stepwise regression for the 
    proportional subdistribution hazards model in competing risks 
    (Fine &amp; Gray 1999). Procedure uses AIC, BIC and BICcr as selection 
    criteria. BICcr has a penalty of k = log(n*), where n* is the number 
    of primary events. This version includes improved handling of factors, 
    interactions, and polynomial terms.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: cmprsk, stats, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Ravi Varadhan &lt;ravi.varadhan@jhu.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Ravi Varadhan [aut, cre],
  Deborah Kuk [aut],
  Leon Wang [ctb]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-01-14</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=crrstep</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.crrstep</dc:identifier>
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