Survival analysis with correlated endpoints. Joint frailty-copula models. (English) Zbl 1429.62003
SpringerBriefs in Statistics. JSS Research Series in Statistics. Singapore: Springer (ISBN 978-981-13-3515-0/pbk; 978-981-13-3516-7/ebook). xvii, 118 p. (2019).
This book can be used as a textbook for a course aimed at postgraduate students in biostatistics and medicine. It consists of 6 chapters starting from soft introduction to terminology, multivariate survival analysis, joint frailty-copula models and personalized dynamic prediction of survival. As footnote, the authors included open problems and future developments. Apart from solid theoretical findings in survival analysis, this book is equipped with an brief and useful introduction to R “Survival Package” and case studies that can be used as labs.
Reviewer: Denis Sidorov (Irkutsk)
MSC:
| 62-01 | Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics |
| 62P10 | Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis |
| 62H05 | Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas |
| 62N01 | Censored data models |
| 62N05 | Reliability and life testing |
| 92B15 | General biostatistics |
