Data Analysis with Competing Risks and Intermediate States

ISBN-13: 9780367738051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 277 str.

Ronald B. Geskus

Opis

This practical and thorough book explains when and how to use models and techniques for the analysis of competing risks and intermediate states. It covers the most recent insights on estimation techniques and discusses in detail how to interpret the obtained results. Each chapter includes standard exercises; a software section on SAS, Stata, and

Spis treści

Basic Concepts. Competing Risks; Nonparametric Estimation. Intermediate Events; Nonparametric Estimation. Regression; Cause-Specific/Transition Hazard. Regression; Translation to Cumulative Scale. Epilogue. Bibliography. Appendix: Answers to Exercises. Index.

O autorze

Ronald B. Geskus is an associate professor at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Delft Technical University. His main research interests include competing risks and multi-state models, prediction of events based on time-updated marker values, and causal inference.