Survival analysis for epidemiologic and medical research :
[Book]
a practical guide /
Steve Selvin.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
xiii, 282 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm.
Practical guides to biostatistics and epidemiology
Includes bibliographical references (page 277) and index.
Rates and their properties -- Life tables -- Two especially useful estimation tools -- Product-limit estimation -- Exponential survival time probability distribution -- Weibull survival time probability distribution -- Analysis of two-sample survival data -- General hazards model: parametric -- General hazards model: nonparametric.
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This practical guide to survival data and its analysis for readers with a minimal background in statistics shows why the analytic methods work and how to effectively analyze and interpret epidemiologic and medical survival data with the help of modern computer systems.