{"product_id":"introducing-survival-and-event-history-analysis","title":"Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis (Paperback, 300 pages) – SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis is an accessible, practical and comprehensive guide for researchers from multiple disciplines including biomedical, epidemiology, engineering and the social sciences.  Written for accessibility, this book will appeal to students and researchers who want to understand the basics of survival and event history analysis and apply these methods without getting entangled in mathematical and theoretical technicalities. Inside, readers are offered a blueprint for their entire research project from data preparation to model selection and diagnostics.  Engaging, easy to read, functional, and packed with enlightening examples, \"hands-on\" exercises, conversations with key scholars and resources for both students and instructors, Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis allows researchers to quickly master advanced statistical techniques. This unique book is written from the perspective of the \"user,\" making it suitable as both a self-learning tool and graduate-level textbook.  Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis covers up-to-date innovations in the field, including advancements in the assessment of model fit, unobserved heterogeneity, recurrent events, and multilevel event history models. Practical instructions are also included for using the statistical programs of R, STATA and SPSS, enabling readers to replicate the examples described in the text.  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   Review   This book is very useful for researchers and students \u003cp\u003ein different scientific areas – social sciences and humanities, medicine, in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egeneral every science where studies measuring time changes in variables are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econducted...As the author explains, this book is written from the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperspective of an absolute beginner – comprehensible and with a lot of examples\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the text, tables and graphs. It goes beyond an introductory textbook on this\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etopic, because it presents not only non-parametric models, semi-parametric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emodels, parametric models, model-building and model diagnostics, but it is focused also on some more recent techniques like frailty and recurrent event\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistory models, discrete-time models, multistate models, competing risk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanalysis and sequence analysis...Everyone who would like to start with Survival and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvent History analysis or to get more knowledge of Survival and Event History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanalysis could do this by reading this book\u003cbr\u003eStanislava Yordanova Stoyanova\u003cbr\u003e Methodspace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e                                           ","brand":"Melinda Mills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46068786364650,"sku":"9781848601017","price":195.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/21ufAAmHYAL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781183244","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/introducing-survival-and-event-history-analysis","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}