Skip to contentScholarGate
LibraryBookshelfDeskReview StudioAssistant
Sign in
Nelson-Aalen Estimator/Evidence
Method evidence record

Nelson-Aalen Estimator

The Nelson-Aalen estimator is a non-parametric estimator of the cumulative hazard function from right-censored time-to-event data. Developed by Wayne Nelson for reliability hazard plotting in 1972 and placed on a rigorous counting-process foundation by Odd Aalen in 1978, it accumulates the ratio of observed events to the number at risk at each event time, providing the natural hazard-scale companion to the Kaplan-Meier survival curve.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Nelson-Aalen Cumulative Hazard Estimator
Taxonomic method record · survival / survival
  • Nelson, W. (1972). Theory and applications of hazard plotting for censored failure data. Technometrics, 14(4), 945–966. · DOI 10.1080/00401706.1972.10488991
  • Aalen, O. (1978). Nonparametric inference for a family of counting processes. Annals of Statistics, 6(4), 701–726. · DOI 10.1214/aos/1176344247
Open full method

Curated claims

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.

Related methods

Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.

Same method familyCox Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyFrailty Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyKaplan-Meiermachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyLog-Rank Testmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyWeibull Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

Evidence status

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

Actions

Open method page
ScholarGate

A content-first reference library for research methods — what each one is, how it works, and where it comes from.

Open data (CC-BY)

Explore

  • Library
  • Search the library…
  • Browse by field
  • Fields
  • Journey
  • Compare
  • Which method?

Reference

  • Subjects
  • Atlas
  • Glossary
  • Methodology
  • Philosophy

Your tools

  • Bookshelf
  • Desk
  • Chat

Company

  • About
  • Pricing
  • Contact
  • Suggest a method

Entries are compiled from published sources for reference. Verifying the accuracy and suitability of any information for your own use remains your responsibility.

© 2026 ScholarGate · A research-method reference library
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Terms
  • Delete account