Steve Selvin

Survival Analysis for Epidemiologic and Medical Research

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For readers with a minimal background in statistics, this text shows how to analyze and interpret epidemiological and medical survival data.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780521895194
• ISBN-10: 0521895197
• Artikelnr.: 29337806

Autorenporträt

Steve Selvin is Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught on the Berkeley campus for 35 years and has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles in the areas of applied statistics and epidemiology. He has received two university teaching awards and is a member of the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rates and their properties
2. Life tables
3. Two especially useful estimation tools
4. Product-limit estimation
5. Exponential survival time probability distribution
6. Weibull survival time probability distribution
7. Analysis of two-sample survival data
8. General hazards model: parametric
9. General hazards model: nonparametric.