A non-linear optimisation method to extract summary statistics from Kaplan-Meier survival plots using the published P value.
Background: Meta-analyses of studies evaluating survival (time-to-event) outcomes are a powerful technique to assess the strength of evidence for a given disease or treatment. However, these studies rely on the adequate reporting of summary statistics in the source articles to facilitate further ana...
| Published in: | BMC Medical Research Methodology Vol. 20; no. 1 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | research Journal Article |
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BioMed Central
10/30/2020
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |