Kaplan-Meier survival analysis

Epidemiology and population health

Composite health status indicators and measures of population impact

Disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and communicable disease transmission

Measures of disease frequency

Points of intervention

Survival analysis interpretation

Summary

Kaplan-Meier survival analysis is a statistical technique used to estimate the chance of survival (or failure) for a group of patients (or other objects) over time. It does this by partitioning the total time into intervals and computing the proportion of subjects who are still alive or still in the study at the end of each interval.