Explanation Reason for the correct answer: Option b. is given as “Those who are lost to follow-up before 6 months have the same survival experience as those who remain in the study” The survival experience or the number of participants who withdrew from the study is required to calculate effective number of people exposed to risk of dying during an interval using Kaplan-Meier method. The data is required to calculate the proportion or probability of participants who survived. Hence, option b. is correct. Reasons for incorrect answers: Option a. is given as “The incidence of SSI events is less than 10% in the study population”. The given statement is not required for using Kaplan-Meier method...

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Introduction: Cumulative incidence is the sum of all the occurrences of a particular disease as a qualitative measure for a particular disease. Kaplan-Meier method assesses the information on survival time.

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