Survival models and data analysis / Regina C. Elandt-Johnson, Norman L. Johnson.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Wiley)
Main Author: Elandt-Johnson, Regina C., 1918-2011
Other Authors: Johnson, Norman Lloyd
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Survival measurements and concepts
  • 1. Survival data
  • 2. Measures of mortality and morbidity, ratios, proportions, and means
  • 3. Survival distributions
  • Part II: Mortality experiences and life tables
  • 4. Life tables: fundamentals and construction
  • 5. Complete mortality data, estimation of survival function
  • 6. Incomplete mortality data: follow-up studies
  • 7. Fitting parametric survival distributions
  • 8. Comparison of mortality experiences
  • 9. Theory of competing causes: probabilistic approach
  • 10. Multiple decrement life tables
  • 1. Single decrement life tables associated with multiple decrement life tables: their interpretation and meaning
  • 12. Estimation and testing hypotheses in competing risk analysis
  • Part IV: Some more advanced topics
  • 13. Concomitant variables in lifetime distributions models
  • 14. Age of onset distributions
  • 15. Models of aging and chronic diseases.