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Survival Methods in the Evaluation of the Outcome of Alcoholism Treatment *
Author(s) -
Poikolainen Kari
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1983.tb02528.x
Subject(s) - outcome (game theory) , nonparametric statistics , survival analysis , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , surgery , econometrics , mathematics , mathematical economics
Summary If patients are closely followed up after treatment for alcoholism, survival methods allow a more informative and efficient analysis of the post‐treatment experience that the more conventional cross‐sectional analyses at the end of the follow‐up period. This article outlines the basic concepts of survival analysis, describes both nonparametric and parametric methods, and discusses problems that may be encountered in research on the outcome of alcoholism treatment, when using these methods.