Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data; Author: Hougaard, P.; Author: Hougaard, Philip; Hardback; Book

Author: Hougaard, P.; Author: Hougaard, Philip
Hardback; Book
560 pages
Published: September 2000
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN: 0387988734

Survival data or more general time-to-event data occur in many areas, including medicine, biology, engineering, economics, and demography, but previously standard methods have requested that all time variables are univariate and independent. This book extends the field by allowing for multivariate times. As the field is rather new, the concepts and the possible types of data are described in detail. Four different approaches to the analysis of such data are presented from an applied point of view.An essential reference for Researchers, Biostatisticians, and Students. Survival analysis deals with the distribution of life times, essentially the time from an initiating event such as birth to some terminal event such as death. This title extends the variables (univariate and independent) to include multivariate times and is intended as a reference.