The Aalen–Johansen estimator is a product of empirical state-transition matrices over event times. In competing risks, the estimated cumulative incidence function for cause jumps by , while overall survival is updated using all event causes. Right censoring changes subsequent risk sets but does not itself create a probability jump.
For competing risks, a cumulative incidence function jumps by the displayed Aalen–Johansen estimator increment. A person right-censored at exactly the event time remains in the immediately preceding risk set under the usual events-before-censoring tie convention. Censoring changes the next risk set, not the current event numerator or survival jump.
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