Using nontechnical jargon this extremely accessible reference is a practical guide to survival analysis techniques in diverse environments. Introduces basic statistical concepts and methods to construct survival curves and later develops them to encompass more specialized and complex models. Contains a copious amount of various authentic examples to facilitate understanding.
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"…a front runner among currently available texts on survival analysis." (The Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, October 2006)
“This book is a front runner among currently available texts on survival analysis.” (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, June 2007) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Using nontechnical jargon this extremely accessible reference is a practical guide to survival analysis techniques in diverse environments. Introduces basic statistical concepts and methods to construct survival curves and later develops them to encompass more specialized and complex models. Contains a copious amount of various authentic examples to facilitate understanding.
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Good text for non-technical entry level survival analysis,
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This text is highly readable and presents the majority of necessary entry level material in a non-technical fashion.
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Okay, but a bit too technical at times...,
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Overall this is a well written text with discussion of the most commonly used procedures. However, the discussion gets a bit technical at times without a lot of background explanation. The other problem is that there is virtually no discussion of how results should be written up. There are several examples, but I found none that show a good write up. It's clear that the authors were intending this text to be used in a classroom setting and not as a "do-it-yourself" instruction manual.
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In this chapter we first introduce some examples of the use of survival methods in a selection of different areas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
breast tumour recurrence, anorexia grade, cumulative discontinuation rates, stratified logrank test, reduced sample estimate, clinical performance status, improvement over the null model, corresponding survival curves, exponential survival function, censored survival times, anorexia symptoms, gossypol treatment, discontinuation reasons, individual survival times, tumour grade, average hazard, fixed covariate, confirmatory trial, null hypothesis value, constant hazard rate, contraceptive studies, corresponding regression coefficients, censored observations, relative hazard, experienced fits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Working Party, Medical Research Council, The British Institute of Radiology, The Macmillan Press Ltd, The Lancet Ltd, Dead Alive Total, Advanced Carcinoma of the Cervix, International Science Publishers, Publishing Group, Regression Regression, Lippes Loop, Months Figure New!
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In this chapter we first introduce some examples of the use of survival methods in a selection of different areas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
breast tumour recurrence, anorexia grade, cumulative discontinuation rates, stratified logrank test, reduced sample estimate, clinical performance status, improvement over the null model, corresponding survival curves, exponential survival function, censored survival times, anorexia symptoms, gossypol treatment, discontinuation reasons, individual survival times, tumour grade, average hazard, fixed covariate, confirmatory trial, null hypothesis value, constant hazard rate, contraceptive studies, corresponding regression coefficients, censored observations, relative hazard, experienced fits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Working Party, Medical Research Council, The British Institute of Radiology, The Macmillan Press Ltd, The Lancet Ltd, Dead Alive Total, Advanced Carcinoma of the Cervix, International Science Publishers, Publishing Group, Regression Regression, Lippes Loop, Months Figure New!
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- Survivorship Analysis for Clinical Studies (Statistics: A Series of Textbooks and Monographs) by Eugene K. Harris on page 41, and Back Matter
- The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) by John D. Kalbfleisch in Back Matter
- Cancer Clinical Trials: Methods and Practice (Oxford Medical Publications) by Marc E. Buyse in Back Matter
- Statistical Models in Epidemiology by David Clayton in Back Matter
- An Introduction to Medical Statistics (Oxford Medical Publications) by Martin Bland in Back Matter
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- Sample Size Tables for Clinical Studies (With 3 5 Inch Diskette for Windows 3 1 Or 95) by David Machin on page 10, and page 182
- Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) by Wallace R. Blischke on page 34
- Parametric and Semiparametric Models with Applications to Reliability, Survival Analysis, and Quality of Life (Statistics for Industry and Technology) by M.S. Nikulin on page 37
- Environmental Statistics with S-PLUS (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics) by Steven P. Millard in Back Matter
- Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Second Edition by David Collett in Back Matter
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