1st Edition

Copula Models for Dependent Competing Risks Theory and applications in economics, engineering and medicine

224 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

224 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

This book addresses copula approaches to competing risks models for dependent latent failure times. It will establish the fundamentals of dependent competing risks models, as well as a range of recent developments to identifiability and estimation using copulas. Readers will learn from the presentation of theory in relation to its applications in different subject areas in economics, engineering,... Read more

1 Overview of the book  2 Introduction to survival analysis 3 Competing risks models 4 Cause-specific hazards models 5 Subdistribution hazards models 6 Estimation and statistical inference. A Description of data sets       

Biography

Ralf A. Wilke is Professor of Applied Econometrics at the Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics, DK

Takeshi Emura is currently Professor at School of Informatics and Data Science, Hiroshima University, Japan. He is Visiting Professor at Research Center for Medical and Health Data Science, the ISM, Japan, and also Visiting Professor at Biostatistics Center, Kurume University, Japan

Simon M.S. Lo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance, United Arab Emirates University