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Suitable for graduate students and researchers in statistics and biostatistics as well as those in the medical field, epidemiology, and social sciences, this book introduces univariate survival analysis and extends it to the multivariate case. It also covers competing risks and counting processes and provides many real-world examples, exercises, and R code. The text discusses survival data, survival distributions, frailty models, parametric methods, multivariate data and distributions, copulas, continuous failure, parametric likelihood inference, and non- and semi-parametric methods.

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... the book is interesting to read, [and] the author's writing style is both entertaining and to the point ... -ISCB News, December 2015 ... a nice addition to the previous edition is the inclusion of R code and datasets, which are available online. ... this book is a useful addition to the literature, which undergraduate as well as graduate students in statistics will appreciate. -Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 56(4), 2014 Crowder is known for his clear expositions and chatty style, and this book does not disappoint. It is a pleasant read. The introduction to R will be useful, as will the exercises at the end of each chapter. ... With its exercises and easy style, this book is very suitable as an upper-level text. It is easy to jump into later chapters without much back pedaling and this makes it a useful reference work. -Roger M. Cooke, Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 2014, Vol. 109

... the book is interesting to read, [and] the author's writing style is both entertaining and to the point ... -ISCB News, December 2015 ... a nice addition to the previous edition is the inclusion of R code and datasets, which are available online. ... this book is a useful addition to the literature, which undergraduate as well as graduate students in statistics will appreciate. -Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 56(4), 2014 Crowder is known for his clear expositions and chatty style, and this book does not disappoint. It is a pleasant read. The introduction to R will be useful, as will the exercises at the end of each chapter. ... With its exercises and easy style, this book is very suitable as an upper-level text. It is easy to jump into later chapters without much back pedaling and this makes it a useful reference work. -Roger M. Cooke, Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 2014, Vol. 109

Crowder is known for his clear expositions and chatty style, and this book does not disappoint. It is a pleasant read. The introduction to R will be useful, as will the exercises at the end of each chapter. ... With its exercises and easy style, this book is very suitable as an upper-level text. It is easy to jump into later chapters without much back pedaling and this makes it a useful reference work. -Roger M. Cooke, Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 2014, Vol. 109

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Martin J. Crowder

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