The mean, median, and confidence intervals of the kaplan-meier survival estimate—computations and applications

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-80

  Barker, Chris ^a  

^a Northern California Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Median Survival; Pharmacoeconomics; Restricted Mean; Survival Analysis Summary Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 63549098636     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.0015     Document Type: Article

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