Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis

Author: Liu Liping
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Publish Date: 1998-04-01
Features: This book is written for biomedical researchers, epidemiologists, consulting statisticians, university students, and others interested in survival time analysis. It covers statistical analysis methods for survival data, which come from laboratory studies of animals, clinical research on acute or chronic patients, and epidemiological studies. The main contents of the book include Preface, Introduction, Survival Time Functions, Examples of Survival Data Analysis, Nonparametric Methods for Estimating Survival Functions, Nonparametric Methods for Comparing Survival Distributions, Several Famous Survival Distributions and Their Applications, Graphical Methods for Fitting Survival Distributions and Goodness-of-Fit Tests, Analytical Estimation Methods for Survival Distributions, Parametric Methods for Comparing Two Survival Distributions, Identification of Prognostic Factors Related to Survival Time, Identification of Risk Factors Related to Binary Data, Planning and Design of Clinical Trials, Appendices (A: Newton-Raphson Method, B: Computer Program GAMPLOT, C: Statistical Tables), References, Index.