selviytymiskäyrä
Selviytymiskäyrä, a Finnish term, translates to survival curve in English. It is a fundamental concept in survival analysis, a branch of statistics used to analyze the expected duration of time until one or more events happen. These events can range from a patient's death in a medical study to the failure of a machine component or the expiration of a customer relationship.
A survival curve visually represents the probability of surviving past a certain time point. It typically plots
The most common method for estimating a survival curve is the Kaplan-Meier estimator. This non-parametric statistic
Survival curves are crucial for comparing different treatment groups in clinical trials, assessing the reliability of