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survival curve

American  

noun

  1. a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.


Etymology

Origin of survival curve

First recorded in 1935–40

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Non-parametric two-tailed Kolmogorov–Smirnov test; NS, not significant. d, Kaplan–Meier survival curve of human embryos following microinjection of Cas9 protein or sgRNA2b–Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2017

Non-parametric two-tailed Kolmogorov–Smirnov test; NS, not significant. d, Kaplan–Meier survival curve of human embryos following microinjection of Cas9 protein or sgRNA2b–Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2017

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