@article{JSSv038i01, title={Special Issue about Competing Risks and Multi-State Models}, volume={38}, url={https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/v038i01}, doi={10.18637/jss.v038.i01}, abstract={There is a clear growing interest, at least in the statistical literature, in competing risks and multi-state models. With the rising interest in competing risks and multi-state models a number of software packages have been developed for the analysis of such models. The present special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software introduces a selection of R packages devoted to competing risks and multi-state models. This introduction to the special issue contains some background and highlights the contents of the contributions.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Statistical Software}, author={Putter, Hein}, year={2011}, pages={1–4} }