Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis

And how this non-parametric approach is used to fit the survival function.

Tarek Amr
Python in Plain English
6 min readApr 23, 2024

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I explained survival analysis in a previous post. If you don’t feel like reading another post, here is the gist of it:

When your targets take very long time to be available for you to model with a Regression Model, you may use the Survival Analysis instead.

In this alternative approach, rather than predicting a point estimate (the target), you predict a function of that target in time (the survival…

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