Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone who has had experience of 'survival analysis'
knows of any clear references which talk about modelling when there are
"competing risks"? This is often referred to as a 'cumulative incidence
procedure'.
I am very interested in this as standard methods of survival analysis
are inadequate when the outcome of interest is unobserved due to
occurrence of a competing event. For example, in the case of calcuating
"relapse" probability, relapse may not be observed because the patient
has died in remission.
I would be most grateful for any good, clear references (especially
books) which deal with this topic.
Many thanks,
Kim.
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