Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Αντισταθμισμένοι Κίνδυνοι Cox	Εκτιμητής Kaplan-Meier
Πεδίο	Επιδημιολογία	Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Survival analysis
Έτος προέλευσης	1972 (Cox model); risk adjustment widespread from 1980s	1958
Δημιουργός	D. R. Cox (base model); risk-adjustment as routine practice formalised through clinical epidemiology literature from the 1980s onward	Edward L. Kaplan and Paul Meier
Τύπος	Multivariable survival regression	Nonparametric estimator
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Cox, D. R. (1972). Regression models and life-tables. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Methodological), 34(2), 187–202.	Kaplan, E. L., & Meier, P. (1958). Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 53(282), 457–481.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	adjusted Cox regression, multivariable Cox model, covariate-adjusted survival analysis, risk-adjusted survival model	KM estimator, product-limit estimator, Kaplan-Meier curve, survival curve estimator
Συναφείς	5	2
Σύνοψη	Risk-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression extends the classical Cox (1972) survival model by simultaneously entering known confounders — age, sex, comorbidities, disease severity — into the model alongside the exposure of primary interest. This adjustment isolates the independent effect of the exposure on the hazard of an event, producing hazard ratios (HRs) that are not distorted by baseline differences between comparison groups. It is the most widely used method for multivariable survival analysis in clinical and epidemiological research.	The Kaplan-Meier estimator is a nonparametric method for estimating the survival function S(t) — the probability that an individual survives beyond time t — from data that include censored observations. Introduced by Edward L. Kaplan and Paul Meier in their landmark 1958 JASA paper, it is the standard first step in any survival analysis and is among the most-cited statistical methods in biomedical research.