Product Description

The place in survival analysis now occupied by proportional hazards models and their generalizations is so large that it is no longer conceivable to offer a course on the subject without devoting at least half of the content to this topic alone. This book focuses on the theory and applications of a very broad class of models - proportional hazards and non-proportional hazards models, the former being viewed as a special case of the latter - which underlie modern survival analysis. Unlike other books in this area the emphasis is not on measure theoretic arguments for stochastic integrals and martingales. Instead, while inference based on counting processes and the theory of martingales is covered, much greater weight is placed on more traditional results such as the functional central limit theorem.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #946710 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 542 pages

Customer Reviews

proportional hazards and more
Terry Therneau's text was the first to cover extensions of the Cox proportional hazards model. In this text O'Quigley develops the methods rigorously. Interesting and novel topics include the introduction of estimating equations and changepoint models. This text is mathematically rigorous and involves the theory of stochastic processes, stochastic integrals and Brownian Motion. It also includes some real applications that are well illustrated.