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JSM 2002 Abstract #301354
Activity Number: 288
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section*
Abstract - #301354
Title: The Price of Kaplan-Meier
Author(s): Hui Xie*+ and Paul Meier+
Affiliation(s): Columbia University and Columbia University
Address: , New York, New York, , , New York, New York, ,
Keywords: Kaplan-Meier ; Rupert Miller ; nonparametric ; lognormal
Abstract:

In 1983 Rupert Miller wrote in Biometrics, a paper called "What Price Kaplan-Meier?", saying that the Kaplan-Meier estimator was quite ineffficient and suggesting that, if possible, the analyst who might use it should instead use some parametric form. (He mentioned the Exponential Distribution, but he also indicated other distributions as well.) I thought that his analysis was mistaken, but I thought the references to "What Price" would disappear. Unfortunately, I find that it has been quoted at least 37 times since then and, thus, it is time that I answer it, and I will do so.

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