title: What price Kaplan-Meier?
abstract: The asymptotic efficiency of the Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimator, relative to the maximum likelihood estimator of a parametric survival function, is examined under a random-censoring model.
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D009026:Mortality; D012107:Research Design