Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 On the Entropies and the Mutual Information of Some Bivariate Continuous Distributions Used in Reliability
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   Chapter 2 Initial Conditions Problem in Event History Analysis: An Indirect Inference Procedure
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   Chapter 3 Analysis of Survival Data under Competing Risks with Missing Cause of Death Information: Application and Implications for Study Design
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   Chapter 4 Conditional Proportional Hazards Models
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   Chapter 5 A Comparison of Conditional and Unconditional Inference Relating to Log-Gamma Distribution
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   Chapter 6 Universal Formulas for Treatment Effects from Noncompliance Data
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   Chapter 7 Foundational Issues Concerning the Analysis of Censored Data
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   Chapter 8 Burn-in at the Component and System Level
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    Chapter 9 Identification of Dependent Competing Risks Models
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    Chapter 10 Reliability Modelling for Optical Amplified Communication Systems
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    Chapter 11 A Parametric Approach to Measurement Errors in Receiver Operating Characteristic Studies
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    Chapter 12 A Modification of Goel-Okumoto Model
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    Chapter 13 Models for Degradation Processes and Event Times Based on Gaussian Processes
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    Chapter 14 A Non-Parametric Two-Sample Survival Test Based on a Single Occupancy Fermi-Dirac Model for the Discrete Range Distribution
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    Chapter 15 Probability Approximations and Inequalities for Sequential Tests
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    Chapter 16 Cure Mixture Models in Breast Cancer Survival Studies
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    Chapter 17 A General Approach to Derive Chi-Square Type of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Lifetime Data
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    Chapter 18 Prediction in Survival Analysis: Model or Medic?
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    Chapter 19 Dynamic Reliability Models
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    Chapter 20 Generalizations of Current Status Data with Applications
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    Chapter 21 Trend Analysis of Multiple Counting Processes
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    Chapter 22 Historical Controls and Modern Survival Analysis
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    Chapter 23 A Random Effects Model for Multivariate Life Data
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    Chapter 24 Statistical Challenges in Comparing Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation as a Treatment for Leukemia
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    Chapter 25 Maximum Likelihood Estimation and the Multivariate Bernoulli Distribution : An Application to Reliability
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    Chapter 26 Intermediate Clinical Events, Surrogate Markers and Survival
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    Chapter 27 A Semiparametric Bootstrap for Proportional Hazards Models
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    Chapter 28 Application of Cox Regression with a Change Point in Clinical Studies
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    Chapter 29 Burn-in with Age Replacement
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    Chapter 30 Fitting Cox’s Proportional Hazards Model Using Grouped Survival Data
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    Chapter 31 Statistical Methods for Dependent Competing Risks
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    Chapter 32 Orthogonal Functions of Inverse Gaussian Distributions
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    Chapter 33 Statistical Models for Quality of Life Measures
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    Chapter 34 Nonparametric Estimation of Regression Parameters from Censored Data with Two Discrete Covariates
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    Chapter 35 Locally Efficient Median Regression with Random Censoring and Surrogate Markers
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    Chapter 36 Survival Models for Heterogeneity Using the Non-Central Chi-Squared Distribution with Zero Degrees of Freedom
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    Chapter 37 Efficiently Weighted Estimating Equations with Application to Proportional Excess Hazards
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    Chapter 38 Sequential Multi-Hypothesis Testing in Software Reliability
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    Chapter 39 Assessing Gamma Frailty Models for Clustered Failure Time Data
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    Chapter 40 The Shapes of a Probability Density Function and Its Hazard Function
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    Chapter 41 Therapeutic Equivalence Using a Rich Family of Prior Distributions
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    Chapter 42 Dependent Competing Risks with Time-Dependent Covariates
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    Chapter 43 Life Estimation from Pooled Discrete Renewal Counts
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    Chapter 44 Efficient and Ad Hoc Estimation in the Bivariate Censoring Model
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    Chapter 45 Efficient Estimation in a Nonproportional Hazards Model
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    Chapter 46 Modeling Frailty in Manufacturing Processes
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    Chapter 47 Estimation of Wiener Diffusion Parameters Using Process Measurements Subject to Error
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    Chapter 48 Adaptive Replacement Policies for a System of Parallel Machines
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    Chapter 49 Discrete First Passage Time Distribution for Describing Inequality among Individuals
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    Chapter 50 A Graphical Classification of Survival Distributions
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    Chapter 51 Survival Analysis in S-Plus
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    Chapter 52 A Note on Strong Uniform Consistency of Kernel Estimators of Hazard Functions under Random Censorship
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    Chapter 53 Identifiability and Estimation of Marginal Survival Functions for Dependent Competing Risks Assuming the Copula is Known