Model-free estimates that complement information obtained from the hazard ratio.

ABSTRACT: Understand the limitations of the modeling of survival data, especially as pertains to the Cox proportional hazards model.An introduction to model-free estimates of survival, namely, the restricted mean survival time/restricted mean lost time.Use R (The R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Austria) or STATA® (The STATACorp, College Station, TX, USA) to perform analyses and obtain these parameters from a dataset.

Supplementary information

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12055-021-01167-4.

SUBMITTER: Deo SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8218107 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature