Solution

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Only times up to contribute to the cumulative incidence function for type , because its cause-specific hazard vanishes afterwards. With ,
so
This increases before and then remains constant; it includes the protection from type events produced by earlier type events. If both intensities vanish, ; if , it is also identically zero.

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