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Kaplan-Meier, marginal or conditional probability curves in summarizing competing risks failure time data?

Pepe MS, Mori M.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98104.

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.

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PMID: 8516591 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]