Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis.
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Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiley,
2013.
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Colección: | Wiley series in probability and statistics
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Preliminaries
- 1.2 Censored Data
- 1.2.1 Type I Censoring
- 1.2.2 Type II Censoring
- 1.2.3 Type III Censoring
- 1.3 Scope of the Book
- 2 Functions of Survival Time
- 2.1 Definitions
- 2.1.1 Survivorship Function (or Survival Function)
- 2.1.2 Probability Density Function (or Density Function)
- 2.1.3 Hazard Function
- 2.2 Relationships of the Survival Functions
- Exercises
- 3 Examples of Survival Data Analysis
- 3.1 Example 3.1: Comparison of Two Treatments and Three Diets
- 3.1.1 Comparison of Two Treatments
- 3.1.2 Comparison of Three Diets
- 3.2 Example 3.2: Comparison of Two Survival Patterns Using Life Tables
- 3.3 Example 3.3: Fitting Survival Distributions to Tumor-Free Times
- 3.4 Example 3.4: Comparing Survival of a Cohort with that of a General Population
- Relative Survival
- 3.5 Example 3.5: Identification of Risk Factors for Incident Events
- 3.6 Example 3.6: Identification of Risk Factors for the Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- 3.7 Example 3.7: Identification of Significant Risk Factors for Incident Hypertension Using Related Data (Repeated Measurements) in a Longitudinal Study
- Exercises
- 4 Nonparametric Methods of Estimating Survival Functions
- 4.1 Product-Limit Estimates of Survivorship Function
- 4.2 N elson-Aalen Estimates of Survivorship Function
- 4.3 Life-Table Analysis
- 4.3.1 Population Life Tables
- 4.3.2 Clinical Life Tables
- 4.4 Relative Survival Rates
- 4.5 Standardized Rates and Ratios
- Exercises
- 5 Nonparametric Methods for Comparing Survival Distributions
- 5.1 Comparison of Two Survival Distributions
- 5.1.1 Gehan's Generalized Wilcoxon Test
- 5.1.2 The Cox-Mantel Test
- 5.1.3 The Logrank Test
- 5.1.4 Peto and Peto's Generalized Wilcoxon Test
- 5.1.5 Cox's F-Test
- 5.1.6 Comments on the Tests
- 5.2 The Mantel and Haenszel Test
- 5.3 Comparison of K (K > 2) Samples
- 5.3.1 An Extended Test Using Scores
- 5.3.2 Extended Logrank (Chi-Square) Test
- Exercises
- 6 Some Well-Known Parametric Survival Distributions And Their Applications
- 6.1 Exponential Distribution
- 6.2 Weibull Distribution
- 6.3 Lognormal Distribution
- 6.4 Gamma, Generalized Gamma, and Extended Generalized Gamma Distributions
- 6.5 Log-Logistic Distribution
- 6.6 Other Survival Distributions
- Exercises
- 7 Estimation Procedures for Parametric Survival Distributions Without Covariates
- 7.1 General Maximum Likelihood Estimation Procedure
- 7.1.1 Estimation Procedures for Data with Right-Censored Observations
- 7.1.2 Estimation Procedures for Data with Right-, Left-, and Interval-Censored Observations
- 7.2 Exponential Distribution
- 7.2.1 One-Parameter Exponential Distribution