Survival Analysis with Long-Term Survivors by Ross A. Maller,... - 9780471962014

Survival Analysis with Long-Term SurvivorsAuthor(s): Ross A. Maller, Xian Zhou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9780471962014, 978-0471962014\nSynopsis\nThe aim of this book is to suggest and exemplify a systematic methodology for analysing survival data which contains \""immune\"", or \""cured\"" individuals, denoted generically as \""long-term survivors\"". Such data occurs in medical and epidemiological applications, where the intention may be to identify whether or not cured or immune individuals are present in a population, perhaps as a result of treatments given; in the analysis of recidivism data in criminology, where the intentions are similar with respect to prisoners released from and possibly returning to prison; and in many other areas where followup data is available on individuals, with the possibility that not all suffer the event under investigation. Both nonparametric and parametric methods.