Relative survival
Everything Red Door Analytics has published on relative survival — the packages that fit it, the tools that show it, the tutorials that work it through, and where it decided something.
Survival in a diseased population measured against what a matched slice of the general population would have done anyway. The gap is the excess, and finding it needs no cause-of-death information at all.
Also called net survival, excess mortality.
A narrower method under survival analysis.
Fit it1
merlinOpen source, in R and Stata. Each page states what has shipped and what is in build.
Worked through1
The evidence11
- Loss of life expectancy in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms in Sweden.
- Including uncertainty of the expected mortality rates in the prediction of loss in life expectancy.
- Assessing the impact of including variation in general population mortality on standard errors of relative survival and loss in life expectancy.
- A multistate model incorporating estimation of excess hazards and multiple time scales.
- Loss in working years after a breast cancer diagnosis.
- Long‐term survival and loss in expectancy of life in a population‐based cohort of 7114 patients with diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma.