Competing Exponential Risks, with Particular Reference to the Study of Smoking and Lung Cancer
作者:
Joseph Berkson,
Lila Elveback,
期刊:
Journal of the American Statistical Association
(Taylor Available online 1960)
卷期:
Volume 55,
issue 291
页码: 415-428
ISSN:0162-1459
年代: 1960
DOI:10.1080/01621459.1960.10482072
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
In various contexts of statistical problems one deals with the measurement of a “risk”—a risk of dying, a risk of becoming ill, and so forth. In applied vital statistics various indices are used to measure such risks, and typically these arenotprobabilities. In formal mathematical statistical analyses, typically theyaremeasured as probabilities. A special problem arises when more than one risk must be measured at the same time. Even if they are independent in a technical statistical sense, the presence of one risk will complicate the measurement of another. This situation has been referred to as “competing risks.” In this paper we apply an analysis of competing risks to some questions that arose in the study of the relation of smoking to lung cancer.
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