methods
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Kaplan-Meier method

statistics and research methods
type: Concept
narrower: Kaplan-Meier method

Kaplan-Meier method
definition: The Kaplan-Meier (or product limit) estimator is a nonparametric (or distribution free) estimator of a survival distribution S(t). It was derived by Kaplan and Meier in 1958 as a direct generalization of the sample survivor function in presence of censored data. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Kaplan-Meier Method]
broader: statistics and research methods
type: Concept