"Competing
risks" is the name for the situation where "one of out
several types of failure" may terminate follow-up of an individual.
This is a very common situation in epidemiology where studies
often focus on disease occurrence but where cohort members may
die from other causes without getting the disease.
The course will focus on analysis of follow-up data with competing
risks. Analysis of rates and risks of each type of failure will
be discussed and illustrated with a number of examples. Hands-on
practicals using the R software are included and an introduction
to R will be given.
