Survival Analysis Using SAS

PREFACE

When the first edition of Survival Analysis Using SAS was published in 1995, my goal was to provide an accessible, data-based introduction to methods of survival analysis, one that focused on methods available in SAS and that also used SAS for the examples. The success of that book confirmed my belief that statistical methods are most effectively taught by showing researchers how to implement them with familiar software using real data.

Of course, the downside of a software-based statistics text is that the software often changes more rapidly than the statistical methodology. In the 15 years that the first edition of the book has been in print, there have been so many changes to the features and syntax of SAS procedures for survival analysis ...