Statistical Analysis of Competing Risks: Overall Survival in a Group of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients

0369248 - ÚI 2012 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Fürstová, Jana - Valenta, Zdeněk
Statistical Analysis of Competing Risks: Overall Survival in a Group of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients.
European Journal for Biomedical Informatics. Roč. 7, č. 1 (2011), s. 2-10. ISSN 1801-5603
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10300504
Keywords : competing risks * chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) * overall survival * cause-specific hazard * cumulative incidence function
Subject RIV: IN - Informatics, Computer Science

Outcomes of specific methods designed for competing risks analysis are compared with the those obtained using standard methods of survival analysis. The effect of Sokal score classification is found ambiguous. While the score should identify high- and low-risk CML patients it appears to be predictive only for the failure due to other causes than CML. The article stresses the inportance of careful consideration of the censoring process as well as the use of appropriate methods for analysing censored data.
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