Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis (häftad, eng)

Introducing Survival Analysis and Event History Analysis is an accessible, practical and comprehensive guide for researchers and students who want to understand the basics of survival and event history analysis and apply these methods without getting entangled in mathematical and theoretical technicalities.

Inside, readers are offered a blueprint for their entire research project from data preparation to model selection and diagnostics.

Engaging, easy to read, functional and packed with enlightening examples, ''hands-on'' exercises and resources for both students and instructors, Introducing Survival Analysis and Event History Analysis allows researchers to quickly master these advanced statistical techniques.

This book is written from the perspective of the ''user'', making it suitable as both a self-learning tool and graduate-level textbook.

Introducing Survival Analysis and Event History Analysis covers the most up-to-date innovations in the field, including advancements in the assessment of model fit, frailty and recurrent event models, discrete-time methods, competing and multistate models and sequence analysis.

Practical instructions are also included, focusing on the statistical program R and Stata, enabling readers to replicate the examples described in the text.

This book comes with a glossary, a range of practical and user-friendly examples, cases and exercises.