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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on August 11, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(16):1188-1189; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn252
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Response: Re: Visualizing Length of Survival in Time-to-Event Studies: A Complement to Kaplan–Meier Plots

Patrick Royston, Mahesh K. B. Parmar, Douglas G. Altman

Affiliations of authors: Cancer Group, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London, UK (PR, MKBP); Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, UK (DGA)

Correspondence to: Patrick Royston, Cancer and Statistical Methodology Groups, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, 222 Euston Road, London NW1 2DA, UK (e-mail: pr@ctu.mrc.ac.uk).

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Lama and Gallo propose an alternative to our approach in which individual survival times are displayed with box-and-whiskers plots (box plots) of percentiles of the survival distribution. Their suggestion is not new [eg, see figures 7 and 8 in Gentleman and Crowley (2)]. As stated by Gentleman and Crowley, "Thus, these methods [box . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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