Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis

Abstract

Textbook. 1. The fundamentals of survival and event history analysis -- 2. An introduction to R and data exploration via descriptive statistics and graphics -- 3. Survival and event history data structures -- 4. Non-parametric methods : the Kaplan-Meier estimator -- 5. The Cox proportional-hazards regression model -- 6. Parametric models -- 7. Model-building and diagnostics -- 8. Frailty and recurrent event models -- 9. Discrete-time models -- 10. Competing risk and multi-state models -- 11. Sequence analysis -- appendix 1. Description of the data used in this book -- appendix 2. Survival and event history analysis using stata.