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  2. Cohort study - Wikipedia

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    A cohort study is a particular form of longitudinal study that samples a cohort (a group of people who share a defining characteristic, typically those who experienced a common event in a selected period, such as birth or graduation), performing a cross-section at intervals through time. It is a type of panel study where the individuals in the ...

  3. Cohort (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Case–control study versus cohort on a timeline. "OR" stands for "odds ratio" and "RR" stands for "relative risk". In statistics, epidemiology, marketing and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects who share a defining characteristic (typically subjects who experienced a common event in a selected time period, such as birth or graduation).

  4. Life table - Wikipedia

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    The Pattern Method: Let the pattern of mortality continue until the rate approaches or hits 1.000 and set that as the ultimate age. The Less-Than-One Method: This is a variation on the Forced Method. The ultimate mortality rate is set equal to the expected mortality at a selected ultimate age, rather 1.000 as in the Forced Method.

  5. Survival analysis - Wikipedia

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    Survival analysis is a branch of statistics for analyzing the expected duration of time until one event occurs, such as death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. This topic is called reliability theory, reliability analysis or reliability engineering in engineering, duration analysis or duration modelling in economics ...

  6. Evans Syndrome: Understanding and Managing This Rare Disorder

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    One study reported a median survival of 7.2 years with Evans syndrome. Those with secondary Evans syndrome had a 5-year survival rate of 38%. ... national observational cohort. https://www.ncbi ...

  7. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Cohort LEB is the mean length of life of a birth cohort ... (910 grams)), females have a higher survival rate. At the other extreme, about 90% of individuals aged 110 ...

  8. Limited-Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Treatment and Outlook

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    The 5-year relative survival rate for SCLC is about 7%. The 5-year relative survival rate refers to the number of people still alive after 5 years with the cancer compared with the number of ...

  9. Congestive Heart Failure: Life Expectancy and Outlook by Stage

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    A report averaging several smaller studies found that people under age 65 generally had a 5-year survival rate of 78.8 percent following CHF diagnosis. The same report found that people over age ...