Tutorial on discrete hazard functions.
Risk analysis requires estimation of hazard functions. A hazard rate is the conditional probability of adverse sentinel event occurring in the next time period, given that it has not yet occurred. This tutorial shows how hazard functions are estimated from survival functions, the probability of goin...
| Published in: | Quality Management in Health Care Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 311 - 321 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Oct-Dec2007
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