Competing risks: you only die once

You Can Only Die Once: Public-Private Partnerships for Managing Interdependent Risks

You Can Only Die Once: Public-Private Partnerships for Managing the Risks of Extreme Events

Once and only once.

V enous thrombosis is a fairly common disorder that manifests mainly as deep vein thrombosis of the leg or pulmonary embolism. It affects 1 in 1000 individuals annually and has a substantial mortality rate. 1 Its causes are both genetic (prothrombotic abnormalities sometimes referred to as a group as thrombophilia) and acquired. 2 Among the latter are cancer, female hormone use, and all forms o...

Myocardial clefts, crypts, or crevices: once again, you see only what you look for.

Competing risks.

Consider a unit which can experience any one of k competing failure types, and suppose that for each unit we observe the time to failure, T , and the type of failure, C ∈ {1, 2, . . . , k}. The case of observing the pair (T, C) is termed “competing risks” in the statistical literature. After considering some examples we review basic notation and theory of competing risks. In particular we consi...