Tweaking Exponential Distribution to Estimate the Chance for More Survival Time if a Cancerous Kidney is Removed
- 1 Texas State University-San Marcos, United States
Abstract
Patients with a malignant tumor in the kidney (recognized as hypernephroma in medical practice) are treated by what is known as nephrectomy (that is a surgical removal of the kidney) in addition to a combionation of chemotherapy and immunotherapy for the sake of more survival time. This articles develops and demonstrates a statistical methodology to assess the statistical significance of an estimated chance for more survival time by tweaking the exponential distribution in a novel manner. This methodology is useful for the surgeons as much as to the patients who plan to undergo kidney removal.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ijrnsp.2013.29.33
Copyright: © 2013 Ramalingam Shanmugam. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Likelihood Ratio Test
- p-Value
- Statistical Power
- Clinical Trial