Research Catalog

Title

Event history and survival analysis / Paul D. Allison, University of Pennsylvania.

Author

Allison, Paul David

Publication

• Los Angeles : SAGE, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

xvi, 93 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

Social scientists are interested in events and their causes. Although even histories are ideal for studying the causes of events, they typically possess two features--censoring and time-varying explanatory variables--that create major problems for standard statistical procedures. Several innovative approaches have been developed to accommodate these two peculiarities of event history data. This volume surveys these methods, concentrating on the approaches that are most useful to the social sciences. In particular, Paul D. Allison focuses on regression methods in which the occurrence of events is dependent on one or more explanatory variables. He gives attention to the statistical models that form the basis of event history analysis, and also to practical concerns such as data management, cost, and useful computer software.--From publisher's description.

Series Statement

Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; series/number 07-46

Uniform Title

• Event history analysis
• Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-046.

Alternative Title

Event history analysis

Subject

Event history analysis

Note

• First published in 1984 under the title: Event history analysis.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-87) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Discrete-time methods -- Parametric methods for continuous-time data -- Cox regression -- Multiple kinds of events -- Repeated events -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781412997706 (pbk.)
• 1412997704 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 870425700
• SCSB-12195657

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library