Abstract
As we have seen in Chapters 4–6, the Nelson—Aalen estimator of the cumulative hazard rate is a basic quantity in describing the survival experience of a population. In Chapter 4, we used this estimator along with the closely related Product-Limit estimator to make crude comparisons between the disease-free survival curves of bone marrow transplant patients with different types of leukemia, and in section 6.3, we used this statistic as the basis for estimating excess mortality of Iowa psychiatric patients.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1997 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Klein, J.P., Moeschberger, M.L. (1997). Hypothesis Testing. In: Survival Analysis. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2728-9_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2728-9_7
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4757-2730-2
Online ISBN: 978-1-4757-2728-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive