Kaplan-Meier Method
Overestimation of the probability of death on peritoneal dialysis by the Kaplan-Meier method: advantages of a competing risks approach
... The efficacy of PD is frequently assessed on the basis of patient survival and technical survival, estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. The transplantation rate var- ies greatly between countries or ...
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Survival analysis in patients hospitalized with influenza (H1N1)
... the Kaplan-Meier method. The median times are Kaplan-Meier are closer to the Log-nomal distribution with median times of 46 and 41, ...the method to be used to fit the model, the ...
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<p>MicroRNA-146a as a Prognostic Biomarker for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma</p>
... by Kaplan – Meier method showed miR146a and COX2 expression can be probably considered as prognostic biomarkers for ESCC because patients with high expression of miR146a had 7 months shorter life ...
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Original Article Decreased expression of schlafen5 (SLFN5) correlates with unfavorable survival in human hepatocellular carcinoma
... The association of Schlafen5 expression with clinical manifestations was analyzed using the t test, One-Way ANOVA, or Wilcoxon signed rank non-parametric test. Overall survival analysis and univariate analysis was ...
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Whether regional lymph nodes evaluation should be equally required for both right and left colon cancer
... with Kaplan-Meier method according to the optimal number of lymph node identified in RCC and LCC patients, and log-rank tests were used to compare the differences of CSS ...
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<p>Surgical Treatment Outcomes of Spinal Metastases of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: The First Report of 30 Patients from a Single Center</p>
... the Kaplan–Meier method, and univariate analysis for various possible prognostic factors (including age, sex, tumor type, KPS, preoperative Frankel score, spine involvement, number of metastases ...
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Using Kaplan – Meier curves for preliminary evaluation the duration of unemployment spells
... The Kaplan-Meier method is a nonparametric (actuarial) technique for estimating time- related events (the survivorship ...the Kaplan-Meier estimate of the survival function is a series ...
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Timing of tracheostomy as a determinant of weaning success in critically ill patients: a retrospective study
... age, sex, APACHE II score, the length of ICU stay, PaO 2 /FiO 2 ratio, peripheral WBC count, haemoglobin, albumin and wean- ing period, were analyzed by an independent t-test. The corre- lations between the intubation ...
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Review Article High RASEF expression is associated with a significantly better prognosis in colorectal cancer
... Kaplan-Meier method and the log-rank test analysis results showed that patients with RASEF high expression had a significantly bet- ter prognosis ...
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Original Article Prognostic values of EphB1/B2 and p-EphB1/B2 expression in non-small cell lung cancer
... The association of the expression of EphB1/2 and p-EphB1/2 two proteins with overall survival of NSCLC patients The Kaplan-Meier method was used to calculate the relationships between th[r] ...
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Bias and precision of methods for estimating the difference in restricted mean survival time from an individual patient data meta-analysis
... Among the two-stage methods studied by Wei et al., the non-parametric pseudo-values method was disregarded, as Wei et al. showed that it led to similar results as the non- parametric Pooled ...
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Original Article High expression level of BLCA-4 correlates with poor prognosis in human bladder cancer
... the Kaplan-Meier method and Cox's proportional hazards ...(P<0.001). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that high expression level of BLCA-4 resulted in a signifi- cantly poor ...
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High expression of Sox10 correlates with tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma
... 2). Kaplan–Meier method and the log-rank test also showed a significantly inverse correlation between high Sox10 expression level and patient overall survival (P = ...
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Estimation and Forecasting Survival of Diabetic CABG Patients (Kalman Filter Smoothing Approach)
... William, Ellis, Josef, Ralph and Robert [6] carried out the survival study on incomplete population (progressive censoring of type 1) of CABG patients comprising 2011 patients using Kaplan Meier ...
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Cavernous sinus involvement is not a risk factor for the primary tumor site treatment outcome of Sinonasal adenoid cystic carcinoma
... The associations between different categorical parame- ters were analyzed using the chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test. All of the surviving patients received follow- ups until November 2016 or the date of death. In ...
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Metachronous pulmonary metastasis after radical esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: prognosis and outcome
... the Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test; age, gender, initial surgical procedure, location of esophageal tumor, pattern of re- currence, tumor classification, depth of tumor invasion, extent of ...
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MMP2 expression median when comparing different glioma grades. The Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that
... gene‘s expression and tumor invasiveness in late stage prostate cancer. However, our an- alysis failed to show any significant differen- ce between promoter methylation status and mRNA levels. In different glioma grades, ...
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Quantitative Estimation of the Stability of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain Typing Systems by Use of Kaplan Meier Survival Analysis
... Knowledge concerning stability is important in the development and assessment of microbial molecular typing systems and is critical for the interpretation of their results. Typing system stability is usually measured as ...
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Modified Weighted Kaplan-Meier Estimator
... The Kaplan-Meier estimator gives highest probabilities of survival while the weighted Kaplan-Meier estimator gives small probabilities than Kaplan-Meier but it gives “0” ...
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Nelson Aalen and Kaplan Meier Estimators in Competing Risks
... In this paper, stochastic processes developed by Aalen [1] [2] are adapted to the Nelson-Aalen and Kaplan-Meier [3] estimators in a context of competing risks. We focus only on the probability dis- ...
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