ABSTRACT

Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research describes the modelling approach to the analysis of survival data using a wide range of examples from biomedical research.Well known for its nontechnical style, this third edition contains new chapters on frailty models and their applications, competing risks, non-proportional hazards, and dependent censo

chapter 1|16 pages

Survival analysis

chapter 2|40 pages

Some non-parametric procedures

chapter 3|74 pages

The Cox regression model

chapter 4|40 pages

Model checking in the Cox regression model

chapter 5|50 pages

Parametric proportional hazards models

chapter 7|20 pages

Model checking in parametric models

chapter 8|24 pages

Time-dependent variables

chapter 9|26 pages

Interval-censored survival data

chapter 10|36 pages

Frailty models

chapter 12|24 pages

Competing risks

chapter 13|28 pages

Multiple events and event history modelling

chapter 14|14 pages

Dependent censoring