Re: st: Competing risks

[Ada Ma <pec187@abdn.ac.uk>]

May Boggess wrote:
> There are many survival books with a chapter on competing risks, but one
> I particularly like is by Marubini and Valsecchi, " Analysing Survival
> Data from Clinical Trials and Observational Studies". Wiley: Chichester,
> 1995.
>
> Marubini and Valsecchi discuss, among other things, the cumulative
> incidence function, which is the equivalent of 1 - KM (the Kaplan-Meier
> curve) when competing risks are present. To compute this you will find
> the user-written command -stcompet- very useful. 
I have been following this discussion with interest - is there any book on this 
topic in solving economic problems that May Boggess or others would recommend?

Many thanks in advance.

Ada

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