Competing Risks for a Diagnosis of Invasive Breast Cancer—Reply

Parametric Estimation in a Recurrent Competing Risks Model

A resource-efficient approach to making inferences about the distributional properties of the failure times in a competing risks setting is presented. Efficiency is gained by observing recurrences of the compet- ing risks over a random monitoring period. The resulting model is called the recurrent competing risks model (RCRM) and is coupled with two repair strategies whenever the system fails. ...

Competing risks.

Consider a unit which can experience any one of k competing failure types, and suppose that for each unit we observe the time to failure, T , and the type of failure, C ∈ {1, 2, . . . , k}. The case of observing the pair (T, C) is termed “competing risks” in the statistical literature. After considering some examples we review basic notation and theory of competing risks. In particular we consi...

Competing Risks Analysis of African American Breast Cancer Patients

Purpose: Recent studies showed that African Americans (AA) breast cancer patients experience lower survival than any other race. The knowledge of cause-specific survival of such patients is necessary to investigate the different factors associated with the disease and support the clinical practice. Methods: The parametric competing risk method is applied to build up the survival models and the ...

A copula model for dependent competing risks

Many popular estimators for duration models require independent competing risks or independent censoring. In contrast, copula based estimators are also consistent in presence of dependent competing risks. In this paper we suggest a computationally convenient extension of the Copula Graphic Estimator (Zheng and Klein, 1995) to a model with more than two dependent competing risks. We analyse the ...

INFERENCE ON COMPETING RISKS IN BREAST CANCER DATA by