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

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.