Applied Survival Analysis

Chap T. Le (Author)

9780471170853, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 4 November 1997

280 pages
23.2 x 15 x 1.3 cm, 0.329 kg

This concise, application-oriented text is designed to meet the needs of practitioners and students in applied fields in its coverage of major, updated methods in the analysis of survival data. Includes analysis of standardized mortality ratios, methods for proving attenuation of healthy worker effects, ordinal risk factors and other new areas of research. Timely and diverse case studies are presented, plus a complete data set on ESRD patients on hemodialysis. Moderate level of mathematics required.

Basic Concepts in Survival Analysis

Estimation of Function and Analysis

Comparison of Survival Distributions

Correlation and Regression Analysis

Appendices

Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]