This book presents some of the recent developments in survival methods, along with the appropriate code in S-PLUS and SAS so they can be implemented. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and graduate students working in the areas of biostatistics, epidemilogy, and medical research.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Zusammenfassung
This book is for statistical practitioners, particularly those who design and analyze studies for survival and event history data. Building on recent developments motivated by counting process and martingale theory, it shows the reader how to extend the Cox model to analyze multiple/correlated event data using marginal and random effects.

Inhalt
Estimating the Survival and Hazard Functions.- The Cox Model.- Residuals.- Functional Form.- Testing Proportional Hazards.- Influence.- Multiple Events per Subject.- Frailty Models.- Expected Survival.