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Survival Analysis for Epidemiologic
and Medical Research
A Practical Guide
This practical guide to the analysis of survival data written for readers with a mini-
mal background in statistics explains why the analytic methods work and describes
how to effectively analyze and interpret epidemiologic and medical survival data
with the help of puter systems.
This text contains a variety of statistical methods that not only are key elements
of survival analysis but also are central to statistical analysis in general. Techniques
such as statistical tests, transformations, confidence intervals, and analytic modeling
are discussed in the context of survival data but are, in fact, statistical tools that
apply to many kinds of data. Similarly, discussions of such statistical concepts as
bias, confounding, independence, and interaction are presented and also are basic
toabroad range of applications. These topics make up essentially a second-year,
one-semester biostatistics course in survival analysis concepts and techniques for
nonstatisticians.
Steve Selvin is Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley. He has taught on the Berkeley campus for 35 years and has authored
or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles in the areas of applied statistics and
epidemiology. He has received two university teaching awards and is a member of
the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
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Practical Guides to Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Series advisors
Susan Ellenberg, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Robert C. Elston, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Brian Everitt, Institute for Psychiatry, Ki