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Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models (Statistics for Biology and Health)
Eric Vittinghoff , David V. Glidden , Stephen C. Shiboski , and Charles E. McCulloch Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 0387202757 |
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This new book provides a unified, in-depth, readable introduction to the multipredictor regression methods most widely used in biostatistics: linear models for continuous outcomes, logistic models for binary outcomes, the Cox model for right-censored survival times, repeated-measures models for longitudinal and hierarchical outcomes, and generalized linear models for counts and other outcomes.
Treating these topics together takes advantage of all they have in common. The authors point out the many-shared elements in the methods they present for selecting, estimating, checking, and interpreting each of these models. They also show that these regression methods deal with confounding, mediation, and interaction of causal effects in essentially the same way.
The examples, analyzed using Stata, are drawn from the biomedical context but generalize to other areas of application. While a first course in statistics is assumed, a chapter reviewing basic statistical methods is included. Some advanced topics are covered but the presentation remains intuitive. A brief introduction to regression analysis of complex surveys and notes for further reading are provided. For many students and researchers learning to use these methods, this one book may be all they need to conduct and interpret multipredictor regression analyses.
The authors are on the faculty in the Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, and are authors or co-authors of more than 200 methodological as well as applied papers in the biological and biomedical sciences. The senior author, Charles E. McCulloch, is head of the Division and author of Generalized Linear Mixed Models (2003), Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models (2000), and Variance Components (1992).
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"This book provides a unified introduction to the regression methods listed in the title...The methods are well illustrated by data drawn from medical studies...A real strength of this book is the careful discussion of issues common to all of the multipredictor methods covered." Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2005
"This book is not just for biostatisticians. It is, in fact, a very good, and relatively nonmathematical, overview of multipredictor regression models. Although the examples are biologically oriented, they are generally easy to understand and follow...I heartily recommend the book" Technometrics, February 2006
"Overall, the text provides an overview of regression methods that is particularly strong in its breadth of coverage and emphasis on insight in place of mathematical detail. As intended, this well-unified approach should appeal to students who learn conceptually and verbally." Journal of the American Statistical Association, March 2006
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very good book, compact but comprehensive.......2007-05-12
Excellent book ..........2007-01-09
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Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data
David W. Hosmer Jr. , and Stanley Lemeshow Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0471154105 |
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A Practical, Up-To-Date Guide To Modern Methods In The Analysis Of Time To Event Data.Customer Reviews:
A Good Read, but Read it Carefully!.......2005-05-05
nice introduction.......2003-04-03
Great conceptual Introduction to Cox regression analysis.......2000-02-09
A clear, simple introduction to survival models.......2000-01-07
Excellent Nontechnical Coverage of Survival Analysis.......1999-12-07
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Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Second Edition
David Collett Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1584883251 |
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Critically acclaimed and resoundingly popular in its first edition, Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the many developments and advances--particularly in software--made in the field over the last 10 years. Now, more than ever, it provides an outstanding text for upper-level and graduate courses in survival analysis, biostatistics, and time-to-event analysis. The treatment begins with an introduction to survival analysis and a description of four studies that lead to survival data. Subsequent chapters then use those data sets and others to illustrate the various analytical techniques applicable to such data, including the Cox regression model, the Weibull proportional hazards model, and others. This edition features a more detailed treatment of topics such as parametric models, accelerated failure time models, and analysis of interval-censored data. The author also focuses the software section on the use of SAS, summarising the methods used by the software to generate its output and examining that output in detail. All of the data sets used in the book are available for download from www.crcpress.com/e_products/downloads. Profusely illustrated with examples and written in the author's trademark, easy-to-follow style, Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Second Edition is a thorough, practical guide to survival analysis that reflects current statistical practices.
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Good introduction.......2000-03-30
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Survival Analysis
John P. Klein , and Melvin L. Moeschberger Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 038795399X |
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Applied statisticians in many fields frequently analyze time-to-event data. While the statistical tools presented in this book are applicable to data from medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, engineering, economics and demography, the focus here is on applications of the techniques to biology and medicine. The analysis of survival experiments is complicated by issues of censoring and truncation. The use of counting process methodology has allowed for substantial advances in the statistical theory to account for censoring and truncation in survival experiments. This book makes these complex techniques accessible to applied researchers without the advanced mathematical background. The authors present the essentials of these techniques, as well as classical techniques not based on counting processes, and apply them to data. The second edition contains some new material as well as solutions to the odd-numbered revised exercises. New material consists of a discussion of summary statistics for competing risks probabilities in Chapter 2 and the estimation process for these probabilities in Chapter 4. A new section on tests of the equality of survival curves at a fixed point in time is added in Chapter 7. In Chapter 8 an expanded discussion is presented on how to code covariates and a new section on discretizing a continuous covariate is added. A new section on Lin and Ying's additive hazards regression model is presented in Chapter 10. We now proceed to a general discussion of the usefulness of this book incorporating the new material with that of the first edition.Customer Reviews:
Good Book.......2007-02-11
Long-winded and uninformative.......2006-12-15
Good book of Studying Survival Analysis.......2004-02-15
The formulae are correct and the examples are explained in a more direct and expressive way than that in the 1st edition.
The most valuable one is its Theoretical Notes and Practical Notes. They show a lot of different points of views.
A good-buy and must-read for those want to have an intense level in Survival Analysis. Suitable for elementary and intermediate candidates to read and study.
Ian Lauder
A good book of studying Survival Analysis.......2004-02-15
In its Theoretical Notes and Practical Notes, there are a lot of different views and sights to show that which is the best to use. The examples are more or less good one and explained in a more detailed way than that in the 1st edition. A good-buy and must-read for those want to have a thorough view in this aspects. Read them carefully! Better than Cox's in this new edition. Buy and read this new edition!
Good for practitioners, but not for statistician.......2002-12-10
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Applied Survival Analysis, Textbook and Solutions Manual: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics - Applied Probability and Statistics Section)
David W., Jr. Hosmer , and Stanley Lemeshow Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471437328 |
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A Practical, Up-To-Date Guide To Modern Methods In The Analysis Of Time To Event Data.
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Solutions Manual to Accompany Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data
David W., Jr. Hosmer , Stanley Lemeshow , and Sunny Kim Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text (Statistics for Biology and Health)
David Kleinbaum , and Mitchel Klein Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0387945431 |
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This text on survival analysis provides a straightforward and easy-to-follow introduction to the main concepts and techniques of the subject. It is based on numerous courses given by the author to students and researchers in the health sciences and is written with such readers in mind. Throughout, there is an emphasis on presenting each new topic motivated with real examples of a survival analysis investigation, and then presenting thorough analyses of real data sets. Each chapter concludes with practice exercises to help readers reinforce their understanding of the concepts covered in the chapter. Readers can then extend their knowledge with a more thoroughgoing test. Answers to both are included. Beginning with the basic concepts of survival analysis-time to an event as a variable, censored data, and the hazard function-the author then introduces the Kaplan-Meier survival curves, the log-rank test, the Peto test, and the most widely used technique in survival analysis, the Cox proportional hazards model. Later chapters cover techniques for evaluating the proportional hazards assumptions, the stratified Cox procedure, and extending the Cox model to time-dependent variables. Readers will enjoy David Kleinbaum's style of presentation with numerous figures and diagrams illustrating each idea. As a result, this text makes an excellent introduction for all those coming to the subject for the first time.Customer Reviews:
Clarity at last!.......2006-08-31
useful book .......2006-03-06
The only survival analysis book you'll ever need.......2005-09-29
It's OK, but ..........2003-07-24
Survival Analysis and you...........1999-12-16
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Analysis of Survival Data (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
D.R. Cox , and David Oakes Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Applied Survival Analysis (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Chap T. Le Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0471170852 |
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This concise, application-oriented text is designed to meet the needs of practitioners and students in applied fields in its coverage of major, updated methods in the analysis of survival data. Includes analysis of standardized mortality ratios, methods for proving attenuation of healthy worker effects, ordinal risk factors and other new areas of research. Timely and diverse case studies are presented, plus a complete data set on ESRD patients on hemodialysis. Moderate level of mathematics required.
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Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data
Philip Hougaard Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 0387988734 |
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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. Applications where such data appear are survival of twins, survival of married couples and families, time to failure of right and left kidney for diabetic patients, life history data with time to outbreak of disease, complications and death, recurrent episodes of diseases and cross-over studies with time responses. As the field is rather new, the concepts and the possible types of data are described in detail and basic aspects of how dependence can appear in such data is discussed. Four different approaches to the analysis of such data are presented. The multi-state models where a life history is described as the subject moving from state to state is the most classical approach. The Markov models make up an important special case, but it is also described how easily more general models are set up and analyzed. Frailty models, which are random effects models for survival data, made a second approach, extending from the most simple shared frailty models, which are considered in detail, to models with more complicated dependence structures over individuals or over time. Marginal modelling has become a popular approach to evaluate the effect of explanatory factors in the presence of dependence, but without having specified a statistical model for the dependence. Finally, the completely non-parametric approach to bivariate censored survival data is described. This book is aimed at investigators who need to analyze multivariate survival data, but due to its focus on the concepts and the modelling aspects, it is also useful for persons interested in such data, but not having a statistical education. It can be used as a textbook for a graduate course in multivariate survival data. It is made from an applied point of view and covers all essential aspects of applying multivariate survival models. Also more theoretical evaluations, like asymptotic theory, are described, but only to the extent useful in applications and for understanding the models. For reading the book, it is useful, but not necessary, to have an understanding of univariate survival data. Philip Hougaard is a statistician at the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. He has a Ph.D. in nonlinear regression models and is Doctor of Science based on a thesis on frailty models. He is associate editor of Biometrics and Lifetime Data Analysis. He has published over 80 papers in the statistical and medical literature.Customer Reviews:
first book on multivariate survival analysis.......2001-01-03
He gives an excellent exposition and a number of good examples. He provides the reader with a very current list of references from the literature.
The author presents the four common approaches to the problem and concedes that the field is in its infancy. He believes that while some of the methods described will prove not to be as fruitful as others, at this point it is still difficult to determine which are the most promising. His aim is to expand the toolbox for researchers in medical and biological fields who have experience with univariate survival analysis and may be faced with multivariate problems. He covers such important current topics as fraility models and competing risks.
In my opinion the author has succeeded in his goal and provided biostatisticians with a reference source that will be useful to them for many years. It should not be your first book in survival analysis though. See the book by Lawless or Kalbfleish and Prentice before attaching this book.
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