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Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1 Survival analysis
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Special features of survival data
Some examples
Survivor function and hazard function
Further reading
2 Some non-parametric procedures
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Estimating the survivor function
Standard error of the estimated survivor function
Estimating the hazard function
Estimating the median and percentiles of survival times
Confidence intervals for the median and percentiles
Comparison of two groups of survival data
Comparison of three or more groups of survival data,
Stratified tests
Log-rank test for trend
2.10 Further reading
3 Modelling survival data
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Modelling the hazard function
The linear component of the proportional hazards model
Fitting the proportional hazards model
Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for the ’s
Comparing alternative models
Strategy for model selection
Interpretation of parameter estimates
Estimating the hazard and survivor functions
Proportional hazards modelling and the log-rank test
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4.1 Residuals for the Cox regression model ul
4.2 Assessment of model fit 121
4.3. Identification of influential observations 131
4.4 Testing the assumption of proportional hazards 141
4.5 Recommendations 148
4.6 Further reading 149
5 Parametric proportional hazards models 151
5.1 Models for the. hazard function 151
5.2. Assessing the suitability of a parametric model 155
Fitting a parametric mode! to a single sample 158
5.4 A model for the comparison of two groups 168
5.5. The Weibull proportional hazards model 175
5.6 Comparing alternative Weibull models 183
5.7. The Gompertz proportional hazards model 190
5.8 Model choice 192
5.9 Further ding 193
6 Accelerated failure time and other parametric models 195
6.1 Probability distributions for survival data 195
6.2 Exploratory analys 199
6.3. The accelerated failure time model for comparing two groups 200
6.4 The general accelerated failure time model 206
6.5 Parametric accelerated failure time models 209
6.6 Fitting and comparing accelerated failure time models 216
6.7. The proportional odds model 223
6.8 Some other distributions for survival data 207
6.9 Rurther reading 228
7 Model checking in parametric models 231
7.1 Residuals for parametric models 231
Residuals for particular parametric models 234
Comparing observed and fitted survivor functions 240
Identification of influential observations 242
‘Testing proportional hazards in the Weibull model 247
7.6 Farther reading 248
8 Time-dependent variables 251
8.1 Types of time-dependent variables 251
8.2 A model with time-dependent variables
8.3 Model comparison and validation
8.4 Some applications of time-dependent variables
8.5 Three examples
8.6 Further reading
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9 Interval-censored survival data
9.1 Modelling interval-censored survival data.
9.2 Modelling the recurrence probability in the follow-up period
9.3. Modelling the recurrence probability at different times
9.4 Arbitrari ensored survival data
9.5 Parametric models for interval-censored data
9.6 Discussion
9.7 Further reading
10 Sample size requirements for a survival study
10.1 Distinguishing between two treatment groups
10.2 Calculating the required number of deaths
10.3 Calculating the required number of patients
10.4 Further reading
11 Some additional topics
11.1 Non-proportional hazards
11.2 Informative censoring
11.3 Frailty models
11.4 Multistate models
11.5 Effect of covariate adjustment
11.6 Measures of explained variation
1L.7 Modelling a cure probability
11.8 Some other designs in survival analysis
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