Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis

Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis is an accessible, practical and comprehensive guide for researchers from multiple disciplines including biomedical, epidemiology, engineering and the social sciences.

Written for accessibility, this book will appeal to students and researchers who want to understand the basics of survival and event history analysis and apply these methods without getting entangled in mathematical and theoretical technicalities. Inside, readers are offered a blueprint for their entire research project from data preparation to model selection and diagnostics.

Engaging, easy to read, functional, and packed with enlightening examples, "hands-on" exercises, conversations with key scholars and resources for both students and instructors, Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis allows researchers to quickly master advanced statistical techniques. This unique book is written from the perspective of the "user," making it suitable as both a self-learning tool and graduate-level textbook.

Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis covers up-to-date innovations in the field, including advancements in the assessment of model fit, unobserved heterogeneity, recurrent events, and multilevel event history models. Practical instructions are also included for using the statistical programs of R, STATA and SPSS, enabling readers to replicate the examples described in the text.