Research Catalog

Title

Statistical methods for survival data analysis / Elisa T. Lee.

Author

Lee, Elisa T.

Publication

Belmont, Calif. : Lifetime Learning Publications, c1980.

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Description

xiii, 557 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Clinical Trials as Topic
• Failure time data analysis
• Medicine > Statistical methods
• Prognosis > Statistical methods
• Research
• Statistics as Topic

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 539-552.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Censored Data -- Functions of Survival Time -- Relationships of the Survival Functions -- Examples of Survival Data Analysis -- Example 3.1: Comparison of Two Treatments and Three Diets -- Example 3.2: Comparison of Two Survival Patterns Using Life Tables -- Example 3.3: Fitting Survival Distributions to Remission Data -- Example 3.4: Relative Mortality and Identification of Prognostic Factors -- Example 3.5: Identification of Risk Factors -- Nonparametric Methods of Estimating Survival Functions -- Product-Limit Estimates of Survivorship Function -- Life-Table Analysis -- Relative, Five-Year, and Corrected Survival Rates -- Standardized Rates and Ratios -- Nonparametric Methods for Comparing Survival Distributions -- Comparison of Two Survival Distributions -- Mantel-Haenszel Test -- Comparison of K (K [greater than sign] 2) Samples -- Some Well-Known Parametric Survival Distributions and Their Applications -- Exponential Distribution -- Weibull Distribution -- Lognormal Distribution -- Gamma and Generalized Gamma Distributions -- Log-Logistic Distribution -- Other Survival Distributions -- Estimation Procedures for Parametric Survival Distributions without Covariates -- General Maximum Likelihood Estimation Procedure -- Exponential Distribution -- Weibull Distribution -- Lognormal Distribution -- Standard and Generalized Gamma Distributions -- Log-Logistic Distribution -- Other Parametric Survival Distributions -- Graphical Methods for Survival Distribution Fitting -- Probability Plotting -- Hazard Plotting.

ISBN

0534979874 :

LCCN

^^^80013562^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library