Keywords and phrases: Kaplan-Meier method, loss to follow-up, weighted Kaplan-Meier method, maximum likelihood estimation, censored data, breast and cervix-uteri cancer data, R program.
Received: November 18, 2022; Revised: December 12, 2022; Accepted: December 30, 2022; Published: January 17, 2023
How to cite this article: K. M. Jagathnath Krishna, Akash Hari, T. Traison, Preethi Sara George and Aleyamma Mathew, Loss to follow-up weighted estimation method for survival analysis, Advances and Applications in Statistics 85 (2023), 55-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0972361723010
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