Question: Sixty patients with advanced stomach cancer were randomized to receive one of the two treatments (Treatment A or Treatment B). Answers the following questions. Provides

Sixty patients with advanced stomach cancer were randomized to receive one of the two treatments (Treatment A or Treatment B). Answers the following questions.

  1. Provides any Two examples of possible reasons for censoring in this dataset.
  2. Which survival analysis test would you perform to determine which treatment is more effective? What measures/values/estimates you would use to evaluate the test?
  3. In studies of stomach, cancer it is well known that "patients tend to have more complications early in their recovery process" What technique(s) in survival analysis you would perform to test this claim? Explain your answer?

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