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Competing risks in epidemiology: possibilities and pitfalls

Author(s) -

Per Kragh Andersen,

Ronald B. Geskus,

Théo de Witte,

Hein Putter

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyr213

Subject(s) - covariate , cumulative incidence , proportional hazards model , context (archaeology) , hazard , hazard ratio , inference , cumulative risk , medicine , statistics , transplantation , confidence interval , mathematics , computer science , surgery , geography , chemistry , archaeology , organic chemistry , artificial intelligence

In studies of all-cause mortality, the fundamental epidemiological concepts of rate and risk are connected through a well-defined one-to-one relation. An important consequence of this relation is that regression models such as the proportional hazards model that are defined through the hazard (the rate) immediately dictate how the covariates relate to the survival function (the risk).

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