Statistics & Data Science · Regression & Modelling
A topic within Regression & Modelling, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Statistics & Data Science.
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Understanding Survival Analysis: Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Manish Kumar Goel, Pardeep Khanna & Jugal Kishore · 2010
Walks a non-statistician reader through reading a Kaplan-Meier curve and the log-rank test used to compare two of them.
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Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
Edward L. Kaplan & Paul Meier · 1958
Derives the product-limit estimator, showing how to estimate a survival curve correctly when some subjects are censored rather than fully observed.
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Manish Kumar Goel, Pardeep Khanna & Jugal Kishore
Walks a non-statistician reader through reading a Kaplan-Meier curve and the log-rank test used to compare two of them.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Edward L. Kaplan & Paul Meier
Derives the product-limit estimator, showing how to estimate a survival curve correctly when some subjects are censored rather than fully observed.
link checked 17 Sept 2026David R. Cox
Introduces the proportional hazards model, letting covariates shift a survival curve without ever having to specify the baseline hazard itself.
link checked 17 Sept 2026