Title: Statistical analysis in the presence of several competing risks Authors:  Andreas Makrides - University of the Aegean (Greece) [presenting]
Alexandros Karagrigoriou - University of The Aegean (Greece)
Ilia Vonta - National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
Theodora Dimitrakopoulou - University of the Aegean (Greece)
Abstract: The focus is on the description of the competing risks model in terms of the multi-state systems (MSS) methodology and the associated statistical inference when the sojourn times, i.e. the waiting times on each state, follow distributions belonging to a general class of distributions which is closed under minima.