Recurrent Events Data Analysis for Product Repairs, Disease Recurrences, and Other Applications (Asa-Siam Series on Statistics and Applied probability [Paperback]

Wayne B. Nelson (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0898715229 | ISBN-13: 978-0898715224 | Publication Date: January 3, 2003

Survival data consist of a single event for each population unit, namely, end of life, which is modeled with a life distribution. In contrast, many applications involve repeated-events data, where a unit may accumulate any number of events over time. Examples include the number and cost of repairs of products, the number and treatment costs of recurrent disease episodes in patients, and the number of childbirths to statisticians. This applied book provides practitioners with basic nonparametric methods for such data, particularly the plot of the estimate of the population mean cumulative function (MCF), which yields most of the information sought. Recurrent Events Data Analysis for Product Repairs, Disease Recurrences, and Other Applications is the first book to present a simple, unified theory that includes data on costs or other ‘values’ of discrete events, not just the number of events.

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'The book is clearly written, to the point, and is easy to read. It is well suited for self-study by practitioners with introductory level background in statistics. It can also be used as a supplementary text in a graduate or upper level undergraduate course on reliability. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in analysis of recurrence data.' Necip Doganaksoy, Journal of Quality Technology

Book Description

Survival data consist of a single event for each population unit, namely, end of life, which is modeled with a life distribution. However, many applications involve repeated-events data, where a unit may accumulate numerous events over time. This applied book provides practitioners with basic nonparametric methods for such data,

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Product Details

• Paperback: 151 pages
• Publisher: Society for Industrial Mathematics (January 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898715229
• ISBN-13: 978-0898715224
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,916,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the first book published on recurrent events, March 28, 2008

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Michael R. Chernick "statman31147" (Holland PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recurrent Events Data Analysis for Product Repairs, Disease Recurrences, and Other Applications (Asa-Siam Series on Statistics and Applied probability (Paperback)

Wayne Nelson is a prolific author and an excellent teacher. He has written many well known texts on reliability, accelerated testing and data plotting. In the late 1990s he saw a need to analyze time to event data in a different way since some outcomes are recurrent. This book is a landmark text as it was the first to do serious theory and application if statistical methods to recurrent events. Nelson sees the mean cumulative function as a key description of these point processes and emphasizes it and good graphical techniques in the book. It includes many examples such as the births of children by a particular woman. The data in the text on births was generated at a statistics workshop I invited him to give in Los Angeles.

Wayne also published one of the earliest research articles on recurrent events. At that time Lawless and Nadeau published another article on this topic using a different approach. Lawless has very recently published his own text on recurrent events based on his approach.

I recommend these books (Nelson's and Lawless') as they are both rigorous and well written and cover an important topic that has not received much attention.