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Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Nicholas P. Jewell

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Alan C. Kimber

    1. University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

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  3. Mei-Ling Ting Lee

    1. Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA

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  4. G. A. Whitmore

    1. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Table of contents (53 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. On the Entropies and the Mutual Information of Some Bivariate Continuous Distributions Used in Reliability

    • M. Ahsanullah, Mohamed Habibullah
    Pages 1-5

  3. Initial Conditions Problem in Event History Analysis: An Indirect Inference Procedure

    • Mark Y. An
    Pages 7-11

  4. Analysis of Survival Data under Competing Risks with Missing Cause of Death Information: Application and Implications for Study Design

    • Janet W. Andersen, Els J. Goetghebeur, Louise Ryan
    Pages 13-19

  5. Conditional Proportional Hazards Models

    • Barry C. Arnold, Yong Hee Kim
    Pages 21-28

  6. A Comparison of Conditional and Unconditional Inference Relating to Log-Gamma Distribution

    • N. Balakrishnan, P. S. Chan
    Pages 29-37

  7. Universal Formulas for Treatment Effects from Noncompliance Data

    • Alexander A. Balke, Judea Pearl
    Pages 39-43

  8. Foundational Issues Concerning the Analysis of Censored Data

    • Richard E. Barlow, Peisung Tsai
    Pages 45-51

  9. Burn-in at the Component and System Level

    • Henry W. Block, Jie Mi, Thomas H. Savits
    Pages 53-57

  10. Identification of Dependent Competing Risks Models

    • Kenneth Carling, Tor Jacobson
    Pages 59-63

  11. Reliability Modelling for Optical Amplified Communication Systems

    • M. Chown, G. A. Whitmore
    Pages 65-69

  12. A Parametric Approach to Measurement Errors in Receiver Operating Characteristic Studies

    • Marie Coffin, Shashikala Sukhatme
    Pages 71-75

  13. A Modification of Goel-Okumoto Model

    • Ram C. Dahiya, Syed A. Hossain
    Pages 77-84

  14. Models for Degradation Processes and Event Times Based on Gaussian Processes

    • Kjell A. Doksum, Sharon-Lise T. Normand
    Pages 85-91

  15. A Non-Parametric Two-Sample Survival Test Based on a Single Occupancy Fermi-Dirac Model for the Discrete Range Distribution

    • Jimmy Thomas Efird, Francisco Pardo
    Pages 93-97

  16. Probability Approximations and Inequalities for Sequential Tests

    • Joseph Glaz, James R. Kenyon
    Pages 99-106

  17. Cure Mixture Models in Breast Cancer Survival Studies

    • Nahida H. Gordon
    Pages 107-112

  18. A General Approach to Derive Chi-Square Type of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Lifetime Data

    • Sam Hawala, Jane-Ling Wang
    Pages 113-123

  19. Prediction in Survival Analysis: Model or Medic?

    • Robin Henderson, Margaret Jones
    Pages 125-129

  20. Dynamic Reliability Models

    • Myles Hollander, Edsel A. Peña
    Pages 131-140
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Statistical models and methods for lifetime and other time-to-event data are widely used in many fields, including medicine, the environmental sciences, actuarial science, engineering, economics, management, and the social sciences. For example, closely related statistical methods have been applied to the study of the incubation period of diseases such as AIDS, the remission time of cancers, life tables, the time-to-failure of engineering systems, employment duration, and the length of marriages.
This volume contains a selection of papers based on the 1994 International Research Conference on Lifetime Data Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, held at Harvard University. The conference brought together a varied group of researchers and practitioners to advance and promote statistical science in the many fields that deal with lifetime and other time-to-event-data. The volume illustrates the depth and diversity of the field. A few of the authors have published their conference presentations in the new journal Lifetime Data Analysis (Kluwer Academic Publishers).

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Nicholas P. Jewell

  • University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

    Alan C. Kimber

  • Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA

    Mei-Ling Ting Lee

  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    G. A. Whitmore

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