title: Competing risk analyses: how are they different and why should you care?
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin 53792, USA. chappell@stat.wisc.edu
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chappell
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*