Applied Cancer Research

Table 2 Survival rate estimates for patients with oral lesions according to the Kaplan-Meier estimator and Turnbull’s algorithm with MAE

From: Use of interval-censored survival data as an alternative to Kaplan-Meier survival curves: studies of oral lesion occurrence in liver transplants and cancer recurrence

		Time (days)
Age group	Analysis method	30	60	120	360	540	MAE
Younger	Turnbull (IC)	0.778	0.718	0.420	0.300	0.001	Reference
(n=18)	Kaplan-Meier (UL)	0.778	0.718	0.598	0.332	0.177	0.070
(Event=15)	Kaplan-Meier (MP)	0.778	0.718	0.598	0.266	0	0.048
Older	Turnbull (IC)	0.404	0.183	0.097	0.097	-	Reference
(n=32)	Kaplan-Meier (UL)	0.625	0.344	0.187	0.125	-	0.060
(Event=28)	Kaplan-Meier (MP)	0.469	0.281	0.125	0.125	-	0.036

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