title: Competing risks as a multi-state model.
abstract: This paper deals with the competing risks model as a special case of a multi-state model. The properties of the model are reviewed and contrasted to the so-called latent failure time approach. The relation between the competing risks model and right-censoring is discussed and regression analysis of the cumulative incidence function briefly reviewed. Two real data examples are presented and a guide to the practitioner is given.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark. pka@biostat.ku.dk
authors.forename: Per Kragh
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: Steen Z
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Abildstrom
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosthøj
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001699:Biometry; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008954:Models, Biological; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality; D009374:Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000209:etiology; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000209:etiology; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012306:Risk; D016019:Survival Analysis