Timeline for Survival - comparing Kaplan-Meier curve to handful of points
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| Sep 3, 2014 at 18:44 | comment | added | Aniko | The cause of death only changes the interpretation. You would not be using the expected survival as a comparison to determine whether the rate of events in the data is higher than in the reference population, but only as an appropriate baseline for each cancer type. | |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 17:45 | comment | added | Steph | Thanks, I'll try that. The relative survival methods I've looked at so far require that the background distribution must be almost free of the cause of death in the sample, but I'll keep looking. | |
| Sep 2, 2014 at 13:37 | history | answered | Aniko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |