Title | Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis [electronic resource] / edited by Nicholas P. Jewell, Alan C. Kimber, Mei-Ling Ting Lee, G. A. Whitmore |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1996 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5654-8 |
Descript | XII, 410 p. online resource |
On the Entropies and Mutual Information of Some Bivariate Continuous Distributions Used in Reliability -- Initial Conditions Problem in Event History Analysis: An Indirect Inference Procedure -- Analysis of Survival Data Under Competing Risks with Missing Cause of Death Information: Application and Implications for Study Design -- Conditional Proportional Hazards Models -- A Comparison of Conditional and Unconditional Inference Relating to Log-Gamma Distribution -- Universal Formulas for Treatment Effects from Noncompliance Data -- Foundational Issues Concerning the Analysis of Censored Data -- Burn-in at the Component and System Level -- Identification of Dependent Competing Risks Models -- Reliability Modelling for Optical Amplified Communication Systems -- A Parametric Approach to Measurement Errors in Receiver Operating Characteristic Studies -- A Modification of Goel-Okumoto Model -- Models for Degradation Processes and Event Times Based on Gaussian Processes -- A Non-Parametric Two-Sample Survival Test Based on a Single Occupancy Fermi-Dirac Model for the Discrete Range Distribution -- Probability Approximations and Inequalities for Sequential Tests -- Cure Mixture Models in Breast Cancer Survival Studies -- A General Approach to Derive Chi-Square Type of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Lifetime Data -- Prediction in Survival Analysis: Model or Medic -- Dynamic Reliability Models -- Generalizations of Current Status Data with Applications -- Trend Analysis of Multiple Counting Processes -- Historical Controls and Model Survival Analysis -- A Random Effects Model for Multivariate Life Data -- Statistical Challenges in Comparing Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation as a Treatment for Leukimia -- Maximum Likelihood Estimation and the Multivariate Bernoulli Distribution: An Application to Reliability -- Intermediate Clinical Events, Surrogate Markers and Survival -- A Semiparametric Bootstrap for Proportional Hazards Models -- Application of Cox Regression with a Change Point in Clinical Studies -- Burn-in with Age Replacement -- Fitting Coxโs Prportional Hazards Model Using Grouped Survival Data -- Statistical Methods for Dependent Competing Risks -- Orthogonal Functions of Inverse Gaussian Distributions -- Statistical Models for Quality of Life Measures -- Nonparametric Estimation of Regression Parameters from Censored Data with Two Discrete Covariates -- Locally Efficient Median Regression with Random Censoring and Surrogate Markers -- Survival Models for Heterogeneity Using the Non-Central Chi-Squared Distribution with Zero Degrees of Freedom -- Efficiently Weighted Estimating Equations with Application to Proportional Excess Hazards -- Sequential Multi-Hypothesis Testing in Software Reliability -- Assessing Gamma Frailty Models for Clustered Failure Time Data -- The Shapes of a Probability Density Function and its Hazard Function -- Therapeutic Equivalence Using a Rich Family of Prior Distributions -- Dependent Competing Risks with Time-Dependent Covariates -- Life Estimation from Pooled Discrete Renewal Counts -- Efficient and Ad Hoc Estimation in the Bivariate Censonring Model -- Efficient Estimation in a Nonproportional Hazards Model -- Modeling Frailty in Manufacturing Processes -- Estimation of Wiener Diffusion Parameters Using Process Measurements Subject to Error -- Adaptive Replacement Policies for a System of Parallel Machines -- Discrete First Passage Time Distribution for Describing Inequality among Individuals -- A Graphical Classification of Survival Distributions -- Survival Analysis in S-Plus -- A Note on Strong Uniform Consistency of Kernel Estimators of Hazard Functions Under Random Censorship -- Identifiability and Estimation of Marginal Survival Functions for Dependent Competing Risks Assuming the Copula is Known -- Author Index