Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis

ELISA T. LEE, PhD, is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Director of the Center for American Indian Health Research at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She received a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and her doctorate from New York University. The author of the previous editions of Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis, Professor Lee is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and member of the Society for Epidemiological Research and the American Diabetes Association. JOHN WENYU WANG, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He received a master's degree from the Academy of Sciences of China and his doctorate from the University of Maryland.

Preface.Introduction.Functions of Survival Time.Examples of Survival Data Analysis.Nonparametric Methods of Estimating Survival Functions.Nonparametric Methods for Comparing Survival Distributions.Some Well-Known Parametric Survival Distributions and Their Applications.Estimation Procedures for Parametric Survival Distributions Without Covariates.Graphical Methods in Survival Distribution Fitting.Tests of Goodness of Fit and Distribution Selection.Parametric Methods for Comparing Two Survival Distributions.Parametric Methods for Regression Model Fitting and Identification of Prognostic Factors.Identification of Prognostic Factors Related to Survival Time: Cox Proportional Hazards Model.Identification of Prognostic Factors Related to Survival Time: Nonproportional Hazards Models.Identification of Risk Factors Related to Dichotomous and Polychotomous Outcomes.Appendix A: Newton-Raphson Method.Appendix B: Statistical Tables.References.Index.