Survival Analysis

Survival Analysis with Long-Term Survivors

Dr Ross Maller

The book was not only to incorporate and systematise the survival theory developed over the late 1980's to the present day, but to add to it and extend it in a number of significant directions. Furthermore, the book develops the new concepts associated without the application of the methodology so as to be directly applicable to the analysis of data sets in areas such as medical statistics and criminology - to the extent that practitioners in these (and other areas) could with confidence use the methods in routine analysis.

The book is highly compressed, but in its 278 pages it surveys the whole field of survival analysis with immunes from its inception in medical statistics in the 1940's to the present day, develops the foundational ideas (involving `nonstandard' statistical technology) for testing for the presence of immunes in a give data set, suggests test statistics for the hypotheses of interest, explores the properties of these statistics and some other estimators by both large-sample theory and by extensive computer simulations, and exemplifies the use of the methods on a number of important data sets gleaned in particular from medical and criminological practice. In other words it presents a state of the art overview of the methodology, as developed in basic form by early researchers, by Maller from the early 1980's on, and by Maller and Zhou from 1989 or so on, and outlines in detail its practical application to data analysis.

The Maller-Zhou methods have already found ready acceptance among practitioners. The statistical methods developed are now routinely applied in the analysis of recidivism data at the Crime Research Centre, and some moves are underway to implement the technology in other Australian states.

This book was published by Wiley, Chichester, U.K.. The recommended retail price is $88 (incl gst).