Competing risks methodology in the evaluation of cardiovascular and cancer mortality as a consequence of albuminuria in type 2 diabetes

<p><b>Background:</b> 'Competing risks' are events that either preclude or alter the probability of experiencing the primary study outcome(s). Many standard survival models fail to account for competing risks, introducing an unknown level of bias in their measures of abso...

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Main Author: Feakins, B
Other Authors: Stevens, R
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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