Kaplan-Meier, marginal or conditional probability curves in summarizing competing risks failure time data?
In the context of competing risks the Kaplan-Meier estimator is often unsuitable for summarizing failure time data. We discuss some alternative descriptive methods including marginal probability and conditional probability estimators. Two-sample test statistics are also presented.
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98104.
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