This greatly expanded second edition of Survival Analysis- A
Self-learning Text provides a highly readable description of
state-of-the-art methods of analysis of survival/event-history data.
This text is suitable for researchers and statisticians working in the
medical and other life sciences as well as statisticians in academia who
teach introductory and second-level courses on survival analysis. The
second edition continues to use the unique "lecture-book" format of the
first (1996) edition with the addition of three new chapters on advanced
topics:
Chapter 7: Parametric Models
Chapter 8: Recurrent events
Chapter 9: Competing Risks.
Also, the Computer Appendix has been revised to provide step-by-step
instructions for using the computer packages STATA (Version 7.0), SAS
(Version 8.2), and SPSS (version 11.5) to carry out the procedures
presented in the main text.
The original six chapters have been modified slightly
to expand and clarify aspects of survival analysis in response to
suggestions by students, colleagues and reviewers, and
to add theoretical background, particularly regarding the formulation of
the (partial) likelihood functions for proportional hazards, stratified,
and extended Cox regression models
David Kleinbaum is Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of
Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Kleinbaum is
internationally known for innovative textbooks and teaching on
epidemiological methods, multiple linear regression, logistic
regression, and survival analysis. He has provided extensive worldwide
short-course training in over 150 short courses on statistical and
epidemiological methods. He is also the author of ActivEpi (2002), an
interactive computer-based instructional text on fundamentals of
epidemiology, which has been used in a variety of educational
environments including distance learning.
Mitchel Klein is Research Assistant Professor with a joint appointment
in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH) and the
Department of Epidemiology, also at the Rollins School of Public Health
at Emory University. Dr. Klein is also co-author with Dr. Kleinbaum of
the second edition of Logistic Regression- A Self-Learning Text (2002).
He has regularly taught epidemiologic methods courses at Emory to
graduate students in public health and in clinical medicine. He is
responsible for the epidemiologic methods training of physicians
enrolled in Emory's Master of Science in Clinical Research Program, and
has collaborated with Dr. Kleinbaum both nationally and internationally
in teaching several short courses on various topics in epidemiologic
methods.
