Competing risks in survival analysis

Survival analysis is interested in the study of the time until the occurrence of an event of interest (e.g., time to death). A competing risk is an event whose occurrence precludes the occurrence of the primary event of interest. For instance, in a study of cardiovascular death, death due to non-cardiovascular causes is a competing risk, as subjects who die of non-cardiovascular causes are no longer at risk of cardiovascular death. In this seminar we will discuss statistical methods for the analysis of survival data in the presence of competing risks. Examples and code will be used to illustrate the use of these methods.