Modeling Survival Data: Extending the Cox Model (Hardcover)

Terry M. Therneau

ISBN 10: 0387987843 / ISBN 13: 9780387987842

Published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc., New York, NY, 2000

About this Item

Hardcover. Extending the Cox Model is aimed at researchers, practitioners, and graduate students who have some exposure to traditional methods of survival analysis. The emphasis is on semiparametric methods based on the proportional hazards model. The inclusion of examples with SAS and S-PLUS code will make the book accessible to most working statisticians. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modeling Survival Data: Extending the Cox Model (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387987843
• ISBN 13: 9780387987842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Extending the Cox Model is aimed at researchers, practitioners, and graduate students who have some exposure to traditional methods of survival analysis. The emphasis is on semiparametric methods based on the proportional hazards model. The inclusion of examples with SAS and S-PLUS code will make the book accessible to most working statisticians.

About the Author

Terry Therneau is Head of the Section of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He is actively involved in medical consulting, with emphasis in the areas of chronic liver disease, physical medicine, hematology, and laboratory medicine, and is an author on numerous papers in medical and statistical journals. He wrote two of the original SAS procedures for survival analysis (coxregr and survtest) as well as the majority of the S-Plus survival functions.