Mastering Excel Through Projects: A Learn-by-Doing Approach from Payroll to Crypto to Data Analysis

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H. ZhouMastering Excel Through Projectshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7842-0_6

6. Kaplan–Meier Analysis

Hong Zhou¹  

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University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, USA

 

Please download the sample Excel files from https://github.com/hhohho/master-Excel-through-projects for this chapter’s exercises.

The Kaplan-Meier method, also known as Kaplan-Meier estimator, is widely used in clinical research to estimate the likely survival times of patients after a certain treatment. As a nonparametric statistical method, it can also be used in other applications. For example, it can be used to estimate how long people are likely to remain unemployed after a job loss. ...