1st Edition

Classical Competing Risks

By Martin J. Crowder Copyright 2001
200 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

If something can fail, it can often fail in one of several ways and sometimes in more than one way at a time. There is always some cause of failure, and almost always, more than one possible cause. In one sense, then, survival analysis is a lost cause. The methods of Competing Risks have often been neglected in the survival analysis literature.

Continuous Failure Times and Their Causes. Parametric Likelihood Inference. Latent Failure Times: Probability Distributions. Likelihood Functions for Univariate Survival Data. Discrete Failure Times in Competing Risks. Hazard-Based Methods for Continuous Failure Times. Latent Failure Times: Identifiability Crises. Martingale Counting Processes in Survival Data. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

Biography

Martin J. Crowder