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What is Survival analysis about?
**Aims and objectives.** This paper describes when and why survival analysis is used and describes the use and interpretation of the techniques most commonly encountered in medical literature. This is performed using examples taken from core medical journals. **Background.** Survival analysis is widely used in clinical and epidemiological research: in randomised clinical trials for comparing the efficacy of treatments and in observational (non‐randomised) research to determine and test the existence of epidemiological association. **Design.** This paper introduces the principles, practice and terminology of survival analysis. **Methods.** References are made to examples from open‐access medical journals. **Results.** Survival analysis is a well‐established series of methodologies that are widely encountered in medical literature for both observational and randomised studies. **Conclusions.** Survival analysis represents a more efficient use of clinical data than other forms of analysis which rely on fixed time periods. One of the most widely used techniques is that developed by Kaplan and Meier. This involves the creation of life tables and the plotting of survival curves with comp
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- Author
- Robert Flynn
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)