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Competing risks data usually arise when an occurrence of an event precludes other types of events from being observed. Such data are often encountered in a clustered clinical study such as a multi‐center clinical trial. For the clustered competing‐risks data which are correlated within a cluster, competing‐risks models allowing for frailty terms have been recently studied. To the best of our knowledge,...