Event History Analysis with R

Preface

This book is about the analysis of event history and survival data, with special emphasis on how to do it in the statistical computing environment R (R Development Core Team 2011). The main applications in mind are demography and epidemiology, but also other applications, where durations are of primary interest, fit in to this framework. Ideally, the reader will have taken a first course in statistics, but some necessary basics may be found in Appendix A. The basis for this book is courses in event history and survival analysis that I have given and developed over the years since the mid-eighties and the development of software for the analysis of this kind of data. This development has during the last ten to fifteen years taken place ...