Event history analysis with R. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Göran Brostrom.
• Other Names: Broström, Göran
• Contents: Preface; ; Event History and Survival Data; Introduction; Survival Data; Right Censoring; Left Truncation; Time Scales; Event History Data; More Data Sets; ; Single Sample Data; Introduction; Continuous Time Model Descriptions; Discrete Time Models; Nonparametric Estimators; Doing it in R; ; Cox Regression; Introduction; Proportional Hazards; The Log-Rank Test; Proportional Hazards in Continuous Time; Estimation of the Baseline Hazard; Explanatory Variables; Interactions; Interpretation of Parameter Estimates; Proportional Hazards in Discrete Time; Model Selection; Male Mortality; ; Poisson Regression; Introduction; The Poisson Distribution; The Connection to Cox Regression; The Connection to the Piecewise Constant Hazards Model; Tabular Lifetime Data; ; More on Cox Regression; Introduction; Time-Varying Covariates; Communal covariates; Tied Event Times; Stratification; Sampling of Risk Sets; Residuals; Checking Model Assumptions; Fixed Study Period Survival; Left- or Right-Censored Data; ; Parametric Models; Introduction; Proportional Hazards Models; Accelerated Failure Time Models; Proportional Hazards or AFT Model?; Discrete Time Models; ; Multivariate Survival Models; Introduction; Frailty Models; Parametric Frailty Models; Stratification; ; Competing Risks Models; Introduction; Some Mathematics; Estimation; Meaningful Probabilities; Regression; R Code for Competing Risks; ; Causality and Matching; Introduction; Philosophical Aspects of Causality; Causal Inference; Aalen’s Additive Hazards Model; Dynamic Path Analysis; Matching; Conclusion; ; Basic Statistical Concepts; Introduction; Statistical Inference; Asymptotic theory; Model Selection; ; Survival Distributions; Introduction; Relevant Distributions in R; Parametric Proportional Hazards and Accelerated Failure Time Models; ; A Brief Introduction to R; R in General; Some Standard R Functions; Writing Functions; Graphics; Probability Functions; Help in R; Functions in eha and survival; Reading Data into R; ; Survival Packages in R; Introduction; eha; survival; Other Packages; ; Bibliography; Index;
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (236 pages), (75 illustrations)
• Subjects: 001.422; Event history analysis; R (Computer program language); Social sciences -- Statistical methods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315360522; 1315360527
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