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

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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.