Concept information
Preferred term
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 concept
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Kaplan-Meier_method
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