Based on historical regression analyses of survival one may calculate expected survival curves for patients in a study group, based on their observed covariates. This note discusses this calculation and illustrates it on a comparison of the survival of a certain group of liver transplant patients to their prognosis under conservative treatment.
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Thomsen et al. (1991) studied this question.
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