Causal inference with recurrent and competing events

• Published in: Lifetime data analysis Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 59 - 118
• Main Authors: Janvin, Matias, Young, Jessica G., Ryalen, Pål C., Stensrud, Mats J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.01.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Blood pressure; Causality; Economics; Estimators; Finance; Graph theory; Graphs; Health Sciences; Health services; Humans; Inference; Insurance; Management; Mathematics and Statistics; Medical research; Medicine; Models, Statistical; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Pressure effects; Quality Control; Reliability; Research Design; Safety and Risk; Sports injuries; Statistics; Statistics for Business; Statistics for Life Sciences; Causal inference; Event history analysis; Competing events; Separable effects; Recurrent events

Many research questions concern treatment effects on outcomes that can recur several times in the same individual. For example, medical researchers are interested in treatment effects on hospitalizations in heart failure patients and sports injuries in athletes. Competing events, such as death, comp...