NON-PARAMETRIC METHODS FOR COMPARING TWO SURVIVAL DISTRIBUTIONS
Keywords:
Survival Probabilities, Non-Parametric test, Kaplan-Meier estimate, Log-rank test, Cox-Mantel testAbstract
Survival curves for each group gives comparison at some arbitrary point(s) but it does not provide a comparison of the total survival experience of two groups. So some Non-parametric methods like log rank test, Cox-Mantel test are popular methods used for comparing the survival distribution and also these methods takes whole follow-up period. In this paper non-parametric methods are used for data from WHAS.
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