Product Description

This practical guide shows why the analytic methods work and how to effectively analyze and interpret epidemiologic and medical survival data with the help of modern computer systems. The introduction presents a review of a variety of statistical methods that are not only key elements of survival analysis but are also central to statistical analysis in general. Techniques such as statistical tests, transformations, confidence intervals, and analytic modeling are presented in the context of survival data but are, in fact, statistical tools that apply to understanding the analysis of many kinds of data. Similarly, discussions of such statistical concepts such as bias, confounding, independence, and interaction are presented in the context of survival analysis as well as the basic components of a broad range of applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #898043 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

Review
'... for students who know very little about statistics and mathematics this book is a welcome resource on the techniques used to analyse time-to-event data. These techniques are introduced in a non-technical way accompanied with many good examples. Also the included R-code gives a good introduction to the practical analysis.' Biometrical Journal

About the Author
Steve Selvin is Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught on the Berkeley campus for 35 years and has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles in the areas of applied statistics and epidemiology. He has received two university teaching awards and is a member of the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Customer Reviews

Steve Selvin's Guide to Survival
Ah, the shudder when a professor assigns his own book. But never fear, Steve Selvin, recipient of numerous teaching awards, is not publishing a book to line the faded jeans pocket, or to swell his balding curly head. Rather, it's just a practical way of printing his lecture notes and homeworks. Furthermore, its rare that a top research university professor has time to write textbooks, so the burden falls to the mediocre. Selvin somehow manages to find the time and save us from so many other books that screw up statistics.