Biostatistics series module 9: Survival analysis

• Published in: Indian journal of dermatology Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 251 - 257
• Main Authors: Hazra, Avijit, Gogtay, Nithya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd 01.05.2017; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd; Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
• Subjects: Baldness; Biometry; Cancer; Censoring; Cox proportional hazard model; Dermatitis; Dermatology; Eczema; Event history analysis; IJD; Kaplan–Meier plot; log-rank test; Module on Biostatistics and Research Methodology for the Dermatologist - Module Editor: Saumya Panda; Pregnancy; Probability; Survival analysis; Cox proportional hazard model; Kaplan–Meier plot; Censoring; survival analysis; log-rank test

Survival analysis is concerned with "time to event" data. Conventionally, it dealt with cancer death as the event in question, but it can handle any event occurring over a time frame, and this need not be always adverse in nature. When the outcome of a study is the time to an event, it is...