Kaplan—meier, marginal or conditional probability curves in summarizing competing risks failure time data?
- 30 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Statistics in Medicine
- Vol. 12 (8), 737-751
- https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.4780120803
Abstract
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.Keywords
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