Journal of Applied Reliability (한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구)

The Korean Reliability Society (한국신뢰성학회)
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Competing Risks Regression Analysis

경쟁적 위험하에서의 회귀분석

  • Baik, Jaiwook (Department of Information Statistics, Korea National Open University)
  • 백재욱 (한국방송통신대학교 정보통계학과)
  • Received : 2018.04.27
  • Accepted : 2018.06.01
  • Published : 2018.06.25
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Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to introduce regression method in the presence of competing risks and to show how you can use the method with hypothetical data. Methods: Survival analysis has been widely used in biostatistics division. But the same method has not been utilized in reliability division. Especially competing risks, where more than a couple of causes of failure occur and the occurrence of one event precludes the occurrence of the other events, are scattered in reliability field. But they are not utilized in the area of reliability or they are analysed in the wrong way. Specifically Kaplan-Meier method is used to calculate the probability of failure in the presence of competing risks, thereby overestimating the real probability of failure. Hence, cumulative incidence function is introduced. In addition, sample competing risks data are analysed using cumulative incidence function along with some graphs. Lastly we compare cumulative incidence functions with regression type analysis briefly. Results: We used cumulative incidence function to calculate the survival probability or failure probability in the presence of competing risks. We also drew some useful graphs depicting the failure trend over the lifetime. Conclusion: This research shows that Kaplan-Meier method is not appropriate for the evaluation of survival or failure over the course of lifetime in the presence of competing risks. Cumulative incidence function is shown to be useful in stead. Some graphs using the cumulative incidence functions are also shown to be informative.

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