Survival Analysis

Terms for analysing time-to-event data and extrapolating survival curves for use in economic models.

  • Topic: Survival Analysis
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Background MortalityBackground Hazard, General-Population Hazard, Baseline Population Hazard

The rate of death from causes unrelated to the disease being studied, applied within a model alongside any additional disease-specific mortality risk.

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Bayesian Information CriterionBIC, Schwarz Criterion

A statistic comparing candidate models fitted to the same data, similar to the Akaike criterion but penalising complexity more as sample size grows.

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