Competing events

Readings

Andersen PK, Geskus RB, De Witte T, Putter H. Competing risks in epidemiology: possibilities and pitfalls. International journal of epidemiology. 2012 Jun 1;41(3):861-70.

Slides

The slides for today’s class are available in the class Teams/Sharepoint folder.

Videos

Recordings of lectures are available on the EPID 722 Sakai site.

Exercise

This week’s exercise is available on the EPID 722 Teams site. Please note that you will need to download the dataset from the data folder. The exercise questions can be found under /Class Materials/Exercises/Exercise 6/Exercise 6.docx. Sample SAS and R code can be found in the same folder.

Optional readings

Below are some additional readings about competing events

• Cole SR, Lau B, Eron JJ, Brookhart MA, Kitahata MM, Martin JN, Mathews WC, Mugavero MJ. Estimation of the standardized risk difference and ratio in a competing risks framework: application to injection drug use and progression to AIDS after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. American journal of epidemiology. 2015 Feb 15;181(4):238-45.

• Edwards JK, Hester LL, Gokhale M, Lesko CR. Methodologic issues when estimating risks in pharmacoepidemiology. Current epidemiology reports. 2016 Dec;3(4):285-96.

Questions

Please use the form below to submit your questions about this week’s reading.