Open AccessSurvival analysis—part 3: intermediate events and the importance of competing risks
Author(s) -
Salil V. Deo,
Vaishali Deo,
Varun Sundaram
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-021-01151-y
Subject(s) - survival analysis , vascular surgery , cardiac surgery , medicine , cardiothoracic surgery , regression analysis , surgery , statistics , mathematics
Understand what events can be labelled as intermediate events in survival analysis.Understand why the Kaplan and Meier method cannot be used in the presence of competing events.Regression analysis in the presence of competing events.