Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

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Summary: one of my favorite books on survival analysis
Review: When I started my biostatistical career in 1995 at a medical device company this was the book I relied on for valuable reference information on life tables and survival curves. This book is particularly good at dealing with nonparametric methods and covering the distinctions between the various types of censoring. There are now also a number of other good books with more recent developments. Nelson's book was a competitor. Under the subject of reliability the same important paramatric models are covered in such books as the one by Mann, Schafer and Singpurwalla, the recent text by Meeker and Escobar and the book by Blischke and Murthy. Hougaard cover multivariate models.

Rating:
Summary: one of my favorite books on survival analysis
Review: When I started my biostatistical career in 1995 at a medical device company this was the book I relied on for valuable reference information on life tables and survival curves. This book is particularly good at dealing with nonparametric methods and covering the distinctions between the various types of censoring. There are now also a number of other good books with more recent developments. Nelson's book was a competitor. Under the subject of reliability the same important paramatric models are covered in such books as the one by Mann, Schafer and Singpurwalla, the recent text by Meeker and Escobar and the book by Blischke and Murthy. Hougaard cover multivariate models.