Book description
With an emphasis on social science applications, Event History Analysis with R presents an introduction to survival and event history analysis using real-life examples. Keeping mathematical details to a minimum, the book covers key topics, including both discrete and continuous time data, parametric proportional hazards, and accelerated failure times.
Features
- Introduces parametric proportional hazards models with baseline distributions like the Weibull, Gompertz, Lognormal, and Piecewise constant hazard distributions, in addition to traditional Cox regression
- Presents mathematical details as well as technical material in an appendix
- Includes real examples with applications in demography, econometrics, and epidemiology
- Provides a dedicated R package, eha, containing special treatments, including making cuts in the Lexis diagram, creating communal covariates, and creating period statistics
A much-needed primer, Event History Analysis with R is a didactically excellent resource for students and practitioners of applied event history and survival analysis.
Table of contents
- Preliminaries
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Event History and Survival Data
- Chapter 2 Single Sample Data
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Chapter 3 Cox Regression
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Proportional Hazards
- 3.3 The Log-Rank Test
- 3.4 Proportional Hazards in Continuous Time
- 3.5 Estimation of the Baseline Hazard
- 3.6 Explanatory Variables
- 3.7 Interactions
- 3.8 Interpretation of Parameter Estimates
- 3.9 Proportional Hazards in Discrete Time
- 3.10 Model Selection
- 3.11 Male Mortality
- Chapter 4 Poisson Regression
- Chapter 5 More on Cox Regression
- Chapter 6 Parametric Models
- Chapter 7 Multivariate Survival Models
- Chapter 8 Competing Risks Models
- Chapter 9 Causality and Matching
- Appendix A Basic Statistical Concepts
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Appendix B Survival Distributions
- B.1 Introduction
- B.2 Relevant Distributions in R
- B.3 Parametric Proportional Hazards and Accelerated Failure Time Models
- Appendix C A Brief Introduction to R
- Appendix D Survival Packages in R
- Bibliography
Product information
- Title: Event History Analysis with R
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2012
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781439831670
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