Analysis of Survival Data (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability)

Type

Book

Authors

Cox ( Cox, D.R. )

Oakes ( Oakes, D. )

ISBN 10

041224490X

ISBN 13

9780412244902

Tags

Engineering, Probability & Statistics, Technology, Social Sciences, Statistics

Description

This monograph contains many ideas on the analysis of survival data to present a comprehensive account of the field. The value of survival analysis is not confined to medical statistics, where the benefit of the analysis of data on such factors as life expectancy and duration of periods of freedom from symptoms of a disease as related to a treatment applied individual histories and so on, is obvious. The techniques also find important applications in industrial life testing and a range of subjects from physics to econometrics. In the eleven chapters of the book the methods and applications of are discussed and illustrated by examples. - from Amzon

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