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    • Survival Analysis
    • Statistical Modeling

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    • Estimating patient-specific survivor functions conditional on characteristics is crucial for risk assessment.
    • Standard survival analysis methods often do not directly estimate the survivor function.
    • Existing methods may struggle with non-proportional hazards.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose and evaluate conditional transformation models (CTMs) for estimating conditional survival distributions.
    • To enable direct prediction of patient-specific survivor functions.
    • To assess the performance of CTMs under various hazard settings.

    Main Methods:

    • Application of conditional transformation models (CTMs).
    • Utilized inverse probability of censoring weighting for right-censored data.
    • Included simulations with proportional and non-proportional hazards and re-analysis of chronic myelogenous leukemia data.

    Main Results:

    • CTMs successfully estimate patient-specific survivor functions.
    • The models accommodate both proportional and non-proportional hazards.
    • CTMs encompass the Cox model as a special case, demonstrating flexibility.

    Conclusions:

    • Conditional transformation models offer a flexible and powerful approach to survival data analysis.
    • CTMs provide improved patient-specific risk assessment compared to traditional summary statistics.
    • The study highlights the importance of considering hazard proportionality in survival analyses.