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Table 3 The weighting of points in each sector used to assess how the positioning of points affects estimates of ln (HR) and var. ln (HR)

From: A non-linear optimisation method to extract summary statistics from Kaplan-Meier survival plots using the published P value

Sets, Study 1

Sector 1 (0–50 months)

Sector 2 (51–100 months)

Sector 3 (101–150 months)

Total Number of Points

Uniform

10

10

10

30

Weight 1

20

5

5

30

Weight 2

5

20

5

30

Weight 3

5

5

20

30

  1. The maximum timeframe was split into three equal sectors as described. A series of weighted sets were created for each study based on distributing 30 points at specific weights across each of the sectors