This greatly expanded third edition of Survival Analysis- A Self-learning Text provides a highly readable description of state-of-the-art methods of analysis of survival/event-history data. This text is suitable for researchers and statisticians working in the medical and other life sciences as well as statisticians in academia who teach introductory and second-level courses on survivalanalysis. The third edition continues to use the unique 'lecture-book' formatof the first two editions with one new chapter, additional sections and clarifications to several chapters, and a revised computer appendix. The Computer Appendix, with step-by-step instructions for using the computer packages STATA,SAS, and SPSS, is expanded this third edition to include the software packageR. Second edition of the text originally published in 1996. New material has been added and the original six chapters have been modified. INDICE: Introduction to Survival Analysis. Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves and the Log-Rank Test. The Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Characteristics. Evaluating the Proportional Hazards Assumption. The Stratified Cox Procedure. Extension of the Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Time-Dependent Variables. Parametric Survival Models.- Recurrent Events Survival Analysis. Competing Risks Survival Analysis.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-6645-2
- Editorial: Springer New York
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 636
- Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés