Methoden vergleichen

	Meta-analytische Kaplan-Meier-Analyse	Kaplan-Meier-Analyse
Fachgebiet	Epidemiologie	Epidemiologie
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2007–2012 (systematic formalization)	1958
Urheber	Building on Kaplan & Meier (1958); meta-analytic extension formalized by Tierney et al. (2007) and Guyot et al. (2012)	Edward L. Kaplan and Paul Meier
Typ	Quantitative meta-analytic method	Nonparametric survival estimator
Wegweisende Quelle	Guyot, P., Ades, A. E., Ouwens, M. J., & Welton, N. J. (2012). Enhanced secondary analysis of survival data: reconstructing the data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 12, 9.	Kaplan, E. L., & Meier, P. (1958). Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 53(282), 457–481.
Aliasnamen	KM meta-analysis, pooled Kaplan-Meier analysis, survival meta-analysis, IPD-KM meta-analysis	KM analysis, KM estimator, product-limit estimator, Kaplan-Meier curve
Verwandt	4	5
Zusammenfassung	Meta-analytic Kaplan-Meier analysis synthesizes time-to-event data across multiple studies by pooling Kaplan-Meier survival estimates, either from reconstructed individual patient data or from summary statistics extracted from published curves. It produces a pooled survival function with confidence bands and enables formal heterogeneity testing across studies, offering higher statistical power and more generalizable survival estimates than any single study alone.	Kaplan-Meier (KM) analysis is a nonparametric method for estimating the survival function from time-to-event data. Introduced by Kaplan and Meier in 1958, it produces the classic step-function survival curve that shows the probability of surviving beyond each observed event time, correctly accounting for censored observations — participants who left the study or had not yet experienced the event by the end of follow-up. It is one of the most widely used techniques in clinical and epidemiological research.