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This chapter provides a concise introduction to survival analysis. We review the essential tools in survival analysis, such as the survival function, Kaplan–Meier estimator, hazard function, log-rank test, Cox regression, and likelihood-based inference.
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Emura, T., Chen, YH. (2018). Introduction to Survival Analysis. In: Analysis of Survival Data with Dependent Censoring. SpringerBriefs in Statistics(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7164-5_2
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