On the construction of clinical life table for studying the survivability of diagnosed AIDS cases.

ABSTRACT

In this paper, an attempt has been made to estimate the various survival functions of clinically diagnosed AIDS cases by the life table method. The actuarial life table method has already been applied to clinical data for many decades. To exhibit computations for the clinical life table, we have used the clinical data gathered on diagnosed 731 male and female AIDS patients recorded from Dec.1993 up to Dec.2002 in Delhi. The method is also used to study the nature of the survival functions for the AIDS patients with different causes of death. The comparisons among various survival functions are shown with the help of the graphs.