Time-to-event endpoints are a common outcome of interest in randomised clinical trials. The primary analysis should usually be by intention-to-treat, giving an indication of the effectiveness of the intervention in a population as a whole. However, the benefit specifically for an individual...

In the presence of dependent competing risks in survival analysis, the Cox proportional hazards model can be utilised to examine covariate effects on the cause-specific hazard function for each type of failure. The method proposed by Lunn and McNeil (1995) requires data augmentation. With k...