Machin / Cheung / Parmar Survival Analysis

A Practical Approach
2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-87041-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten, E-Book

Well received in its first edition, Survival Analysis: APractical Approach is completely revised to provide anaccessible and practical guide to survival analysis techniques indiverse environments.
Illustrated with many authentic examples, the book introducesbasic statistical concepts and methods to construct survivalcurves, later developing them to encompass more specialised andcomplex models.
During the years since the first edition there have been severalnew topics that have come to the fore and many newapplications. Parallel developments in computer softwareprogrammes, used to implement these methodologies, are relied uponthroughout the text to bring it up to date.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Machin, David

Cheung, Yin Bun

Parmar, Mahesh

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the First Edition.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Chapter 1: Introduction and Review of Statistical Concepts.
Chapter 2: Survival Curves.
Chapter 3: Comparison of Survival Curves.
Chapter 4: Parametric Modelling.
Chapter 5: Cox's Proportional Hazards Model.
Chapter 6: Selecting Variables within a Cox Model.
Chapter 7: Extensions of the Cox Model.
Chapter 8: Prognostic Indices.
Chapter 9: Sample Sizes.
Chapter 10: Further Topics.
References.
Statistical Tables.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David Machin: Division of Clincial Trials andEpidemiological Sciences, National Cancer Centre, Singapore; UKChildren's Cancer Study Group, University of Leicester, UKInstitute of General Practice and Primary Care, School of Healthand Related Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Author of recently published Design of Medical Studies for MedicalResearch and editor of Textbook of Clinical Trials among otherWiley titles.
Yin Bun Cheung: MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, LondonSchool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, Division of ClinicalTrials and Epidemiological Sciences, National Cancer Centre,Singapore.
Mahesh Parmar: Cancer Trials Division, MRC ClincialTrials Unit, London, UK.