Competing risk analyses: how are they different and why should you care?
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-12-0455.
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Abstract
Competing risks are events in which at least one precludes the observation of the other, such as toxicity and death. This commentary discusses and distinguishes between the two common types of competing risk analyses, the Kaplan-Meier and cumulative incidence curves.
Medical subject headings
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Neoplasms
- Proportional Hazards Models
- Prostatic Neoplasms