Review Article

Methods to Analyse Time-to-Event Data: The Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve

Table 1

Description of the procedure used to calculate the cumulative survival and construct the curve in Figure 1(b).

IntervalDaysPatients at riskCV deaths (0=no; 1=yes)CensoredSurvival probabilityCumulative survival

10-8010100.9000.900
281-1209110.8900.801
3121-1807110.8570.687
4180-2305110.8000.549
5231-2503100.6670.366
6251-3652021.0000.366