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Preferred term

Survival Analysis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Analyses, Survival
  • Analysis, Survival
  • Survival Analyses

Note

  • IM GEN only; coord NIM with specific disease (IM)

Scope note

  • A class of statistical procedures for estimating the survival function (function of time, starting with a population 100% well at a given time and providing the percentage of the population still well at later times). The survival analysis is then used for making inferences about the effects of treatments, prognostic factors, exposures, and other covariates on the function.

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  • 90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016019

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