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  • Survival Analysis
  • Epidemiology

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  • Recurrent disease and death with competing risks present complex survival analysis challenges.
  • Standard cumulative incidence functions can be confounded by varying event prevalence.
  • Prognostic comparisons require methods that condition on the type of failure event.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate nonparametric methods for recurrent disease and competing risks.
  • To propose estimators for conditional cumulative incidence and bivariate gap times.
  • To quantify the association between recurrence time and residual lifetime.

Main Methods:

  • Nonparametric estimation of conditional cumulative incidence functions.
  • Development of estimators for bivariate gap times (time to recurrence and residual lifetime).
  • Modified Kendall's tau statistic for association, accounting for dependent censoring.

Main Results:

  • Proposed estimators demonstrate uniform consistency and weak convergence.
  • New methods provide relevant comparisons for disease recurrence prognosis.
  • The modified Kendall's tau statistic effectively quantifies associations in competing risks.

Conclusions:

  • The developed nonparametric methods offer a robust framework for analyzing recurrent events with competing risks.
  • Conditional analysis provides more relevant prognostic insights than standard approaches.
  • The methods are validated through simulations and applied to pancreatic cancer data.