Survival analysis 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 or reliability analysi ...

is normally carried out using parametric models, semi-parametric models,

non-parametric model Nonparametric statistics is the branch of statistics that is not based solely on parametrized families of probability distributions (common examples of parameters are the mean and variance). Nonparametric statistics is based on either being distri ...

s to estimate the survival rate in clinical research. However recently Bayesian models are also used to estimate the survival rate due to their ability to handle design and analysis issues in clinical research.

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