Abstract
Purpose: Survival analysis is a statistical method used in many fields, especially in the field of health. It involves modeling the relationship between the survival time of individuals after a treatment or procedure and the event called response. The presence of outliers in the data may cause biased parameter estimations of the established models. Also, this situation causes the proportional hazards assumption to be violated especially in Cox regression analysis. Outlier(s) are identified with the help of residuals, Bootstrap Hypothesis test and Rank product test. Method: In R.4.0.3 software, outlier(s) are determined on a clinical dataset by the Schoenfeld residual, Martingale residual, Deviance residual method and Bootstrap Hypothesis test (BHT) based on Concordance index, and Rank product test. Results: After the cox regression established by the backward stepwise and robust cox regression, it was observed that the established models did not fit. So, the outlier(s) determined by the methods mentioned. Conclusion: It was decided that only one observation could be excluded from the study. As in the survival data, in many data types, outliers can be detected and further analyzes can be applied by using the methods mentioned.
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