Competing risks are events in which at least one precludes the observation of the other, such as toxicity and death. This commentary discusses and distinguishes between the two common types of competing risk analyses, the Kaplan-Meier and cumulative incidence curves.

risk prediction plays an increasing role in financial risk management. this study aims to investigate existence of asymmetry and long memory volatility in tehran stock exchange index daily data over period of 1998-2006. 1467 daily index returns are used for volatility modeling via garch (long & short memory) processes for both normal and t-student innovations. the specification and forecasting ...

Barnett and Graves [1], in their commentary on our report recently published in Critical Care [2], suggested that time-discrete methods should be used to address time-dependent risk factors and competing risks. In this letter we comment on two statements by those authors. First, Barnett and Graves claim that, 'An alternative method to the competing risks model is a multistate model.' In fact, a...