Survival analysis deals with the distribution of life times, essentially the times from an initiating event such as birth or the start of a job to some terminal

Praise for the Third Edition “. . . an easy-to read introduction to survival analysis which covers the major concepts and techniques of the subject.” —Sta

This book is for statistical practitioners, particularly those who design and analyze studies for survival and event history data. Building on recent developmen

Statistical models and methods for lifetime and other time-to-event data are widely used in many fields, including medicine, the environmental sciences, actuari

Survival analysis concerns sequential occurrences of events governed by probabilistic laws. Recent decades have witnessed many applications of survival analysis