Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text (Statistics for Biology and Health)

David G. Kleinbaum

ISBN 10: 0387239189 / ISBN 13: 9780387239187

Published by Springer, 2005

About this Item

Pages are clean with normal wear. May have limited markings & or highlighting within pages & or cover. May have some wear & creases on the cover. The spine may also have minor wear. May not include CD DVD, access code or any other supplemental materials. Seller Inventory # VLM.MI9

Bibliographic Details

Title: Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text (...

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: good

Edition: 2nd Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

An excellent introduction for all those coming to the subject for the first time. New material has been added to the second edition and the original six chapters have been modified. The previous edition sold 9500 copies world wide since its release in 1996. Based on numerous courses given by the author to students and researchers in the health sciences and is written with such readers in mind. Provides a "user-friendly" layout and includes numerous illustrations and exercises. Written in such a way so as to enable readers learn directly without the assistance of a classroom instructor. Throughout, there is an emphasis on presenting each new topic backed by real examples of a survival analysis investigation, followed up with thorough analyses of real data sets.

Product Description:

Printed boards. Very little shelf wear. Clean bright text.This greatly expanded second edition of Survival Analysis- A Self-learning Text provides a highly readable description of state-of-the-art methods of analysis of survival/event-history data. This text is suitable for researchers and statisticians working in the medical and other life sciences as well as statisticians in academia who teach introductory and second-level courses on survival analysis.