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Kaplan—meier, marginal or conditional probability curves in summarizing competing risks failure time data?
Author(s) -
Pepe Margaret Sullivan,
Mori Motomi
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.4780120803
Subject(s) - statistics , estimator , econometrics , context (archaeology) , conditional probability , computer science , mathematics , geography , archaeology
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.