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
Summary
"This greatly expanded second 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 survival analysis. The second edition continues to use the unique "lecture-book" format of the first (1996) edition with the addition of three new chapters on advanced topics." "Also, the Computer Appendix has been revised to provide step-by-step instructions for using the computer packages STATA (Version 7.0), SAS (Version 8.2), and SPSS (version 11.5) to carry out the procedures presented in the main text."--Jacket
