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Regression modeling of time-to-event data with censoring

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Fig. 1: Simulated survival curves from a putative study with n = 500 subjects in which both treatment and BMI are suspected to affect survival.
Fig. 2: Survival probability and hazard rate, h(t), derived from the regression model of simulated data in Fig. 1.

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Dey, T., Lipsitz, S.R., Cooper, Z. et al. Regression modeling of time-to-event data with censoring. Nat Methods 19, 1513–1515 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01689-8

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