Competing risks analyses: objectives and approaches.

Studies in cardiology often record the time to multiple disease events such as death, myocardial infarction, or hospitalization. Competing risks methods allow for the analysis of the time to the first observed event and the type of the first event. They are also relevant if the time to a specific ev...

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Main Authors: Wolbers, M, Koller, M, Stel, V, Schaer, B, Jager, K, Leffondré, K, Heinze, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2014