Statistic Corner
Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes: the awarded Cox proportional hazards model
Abstract
“Life tables are one of the oldest statistical techniques and are extensively used by medical statisticians and by actuaries […]. The present paper is largely concerned with the extension of the results of Kaplan and Meier to the comparison of life table and more generally to the incorporation of regression-like arguments into life-table analysis […]. The applications are more likely to be […] in medical statistics than in actuarial science” (1).
