Statistics review 12: survival analysis.
School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK. v.bewick@brighton.ac.uk
This review introduces methods of analyzing data arising from studies where the response variable is the length of time taken to reach a certain end-point, often death. The Kaplan-Meier methods, log rank test and Cox's proportional hazards model are described.
PMID: 15469602 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC1065034