Survival Analysis A Self-Learning Text
This text on smvival analysis methods contains the following chapters: 1 Introduction to Smvival Analysis 2 Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves and the Log-Rank Test 3 The Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Characteristics 4 Evaluating the Proportional Hazar
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David G. Kleinbaum
SURVIVAL
A Self-Learning Text
Springer
David G. Kleinbaum Department of Epidemiology Emory University Atlanta, GA 30333 USA Series Editors
K. Dietz
M. Gail
K. Krickeberg
B. Singer
Institut für Medizinische Biometrie Universität Tübingen West Bahnhotstrasse 55 7400 Tübingen Germany 3 Rue de L'Estrapade 75005 Paris France
National Cancer Institute Rockville, MD 20892 USA
Office of Population Research Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kleinbaum, David G. Survival Analysis: a self-learning text / David G. Kleinbaum. p. cm. - (Statistics in the health sciences) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4757-2557-5
ISBN 978-1-4757-2555-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-2555-1 1. Survival analysis (Biometry) I. Title 11. Series: Springer series in statistics. Statistics in the health sciences. R853.S7K543 1995 610'.72-dc20 95-18632
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To my mother, Janet Leventhal Kleinbaum Cohen
Preface This text on smvival analysis methods contains the following chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Introduction to Smvival Analysis Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves and the Log-Rank Test The Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Characteristics Evaluating the Proportional Hazards Assumption The Stratified Cox Procedure Extension of the Cox Proportional Hazards Model for TimeDependent Variables
Each chapter contains a presentation of its topic in '1ecture-book" format together with objectives, an outline, key formulae, practice exercises, and a test. The "lecture-book" has a sequence of illustrations and formulae in the left column of each page and a script in the right col
