Survival Analysis: Principles and Applications in Clinical Trials and Beyond (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

Survival analysis is crucial in many fields, including biomedical research, actuarial science, reliability analysis, business and customer analytics, econometrics, and social science.It has witnessed significant advancements in recent decades.However, most of this progress remains in scattered theoretical and applied publications, often focusing on exploratory analysis rather than the design and analysis of clinical trials.Non-proportional hazards are less well addressed. Competing risks are frequently overlooked, and the counting process approach often remains a mystery to many practitioners.Consequently, these critical topics are often not well understood or thoroughly analyzed. Survival Analysis: Principles and Applications in Clinical Trials and Beyond aims to address these gaps.It provides an up-to-date and reader-friendly account of topics progressing from the log-rank test, stratified analysis, and Cox regression to more advanced analyses.Heuristic arguments are used, leaving ri