Evaluate Cutpoints: Adaptable continuous data distribution system for determining survival in Kaplan-Meier estimator

Abstract

This work presents application Evaluate Cutpoints that is freely available to download at http://wnbikp.umed.lodz.pl/Evaluate-Cutpoints/. Currently, many softwares are used to split continuous variables such as Cutoff Finder and X-Tile, which offer distinct algorithms. Unlike them, Evaluate Cutpoints allows not only dichotomization of populations into groups according to continuous variables and binary variables, but also stratification into three groups as well as manual selection of cutoff point thus preventing potential loss of information.