ABSTRACT
We take the day off from Competing Risks now in order to do some spadework. The main topic is the semi-parametric methods that have come to the fore in recent years. In this chapter we give an overview of their application in Survival Analysis and develop this for Competing Risks in the next. The chapter starts with discrete failure times, goes on to continuous ones in the middle, then ends up with discrete ones again. Don’t ask — it just provides a more logical way to develop the methodology.
