Author/Editor		Pohar-Perme, Maja; Stare, Janez
Title		Individualno relativno preživetje
Translated title		Individual relative survival
Type		članek
Source		Inform Med Slov Print ed
Vol. and No.		Letnik 12, št. 1
Publication year		2007
Volume		str. 15-23
Language		slo
Abstract		In survival analysis we are interested in time from the beginning of an observation until certain event (death, relapse). We assume that the final event is well defined, however, that is not always true in practice. Although the cause of death is often hard or even impossible to obtain, our main interest lies in cause specific survival. In such cases, the standard survival techniques can not be used. The cure to the problem is the relative survival analysis, that compares the observed survival to the one expected should the patients follow the population survival rates. This paper describes a recently introduced approach, that compares the observed and population data on an individual level, and the R package relsurv, that provides functions for straightforward use of all the relative survival methods.
Descriptors		SURVIVAL ANALYSIS MORTALITY LIFE TABLES