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Survival or time-to-event data are ubiquitous in clinical trials research. The presence of censoring requires specialized methods for the analysis of this type of data. This chapter describes the methods for nonparametric analyses of survival data, including estimation of the key survival quantities of interest and hypothesis testing.
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Lokhnygina, Y. (2021). Nonparametric Survival Analysis. In: Piantadosi, S., Meinert, C.L. (eds) Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52677-5_119-1
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