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	Analisi di Sopravvivenza Meta-Analitica	Analisi di Kaplan-Meier
Campo	Epidemiologia	Epidemiologia
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1990s–2000s (formalized ~1998)	1958
Ideatore	Parmar, Torri & Stewart (statistical framework); broader IPD tradition developed by the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group	Edward L. Kaplan and Paul Meier
Tipo	Quantitative synthesis / meta-analytic method	Nonparametric survival estimator
Fonte seminale	Parmar, M. K. B., Torri, V., & Stewart, L. (1998). Extracting summary statistics to perform meta-analyses of the published literature for survival endpoints. Statistics in Medicine, 17(24), 2815–2834.	Kaplan, E. L., & Meier, P. (1958). Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 53(282), 457–481.
Alias	meta-analysis of time-to-event data, pooled survival analysis, IPD survival meta-analysis, aggregate survival meta-analysis	KM analysis, KM estimator, product-limit estimator, Kaplan-Meier curve
Correlati	4	5
Sintesi	Meta-analytic survival analysis is a quantitative synthesis method that pools hazard ratios and related time-to-event statistics from multiple independent studies to produce a single, more precise estimate of a treatment or exposure effect on survival outcomes such as overall survival, disease-free survival, or time to relapse. It can operate on aggregate published data or on individual patient data (IPD) contributed directly by study investigators.	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.