Handbook of Survival Analysis

John P. Klein is a professor and director of the Division of Biostatistics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. An elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Dr. Klein is the author of 230 research papers, a co-author of Survival Analysis: Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data, an associate editor of Biometrics, Life Time Data Analysis, Dysphagia, and the Iranian Journal of Statistics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Hans C. van Houwelingen retired from Leiden University Medical Center in 2009 and was appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. Dr. van Houwelingen is an elected member of the ISI, a fellow of the ASA, and an honorary member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Dutch Statistical Society, and the Dutch Region of the International Biometric Society. He is also the co-author of Dynamic Prediction in Clinical Survival Analysis. He received a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from the University of Utrecht. Joseph G. Ibrahim is an alumni distinguished professor of biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he directs the Center for Innovative Clinical Trials. An elected member of the ISI and an elected fellow of the ASA and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Dr. Ibrahim has published over 230 research papers and two advanced graduate-level books on Bayesian survival analysis and Monte Carlo methods in Bayesian computation. He received a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Minnesota. Thomas H. Scheike is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Scheike is the co-author of Dynamic Regression Models for Survival Data and has been involved in several R packages for the biostatistical community. He received a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from the University of California, Berkley, and a Dr. Scient from the University of Copenhagen.

Regression Models for Right Censoring. Competing Risks. Model Selection and Validation. Other Censoring Schemes. Multivariate/Multistate Models. Clinical Trials. Index.