This is the second edition of a practical book on using R for survival and event history analysis. There is an emphasis on applying the methods to problems from the social sciences through detailed real-world examples. The book has been updated with new chapters on reproducible research and register-based methods, and updates throughout.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Event History and Survival Data
2. Single sample data
3. Proportional Hazards and Cox Regression
4. Explanatory Variables and Regression
5. Poisson Regression
6. More on Cox Regression
7. Register-Based Survival Data Models
8. Parametric Models
9. Multivariate survival models
10. Causality and Matching
11. Competing risks models
Appendix A. Basic statistical concepts
Appendix B. Survival distributions
Appendix C. A brief introduction to R
Appendix D. Survival packages in R
