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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300159803321

Autore

Jeong Jong-Hyeon

Titolo

Statistical inference on residual life / / by Jong-Hyeon Jeong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

1-4939-0005-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Statistics for Biology and Health, , 1431-8776

Disciplina

519.2/2

519.22

519.5

Soggetti

Statistics

Biometry

Epidemiology

Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences

Biostatistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Inference on Mean Residual Life -- Quantile Residual Life -- Quantile Residual Life under Competing Risks -- Other Methods for Inference on Quantiles -- Study Design based on Quantile (Residual) Life -- Appendix: R codes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a monograph on the concept of residual life, which is an alternative summary measure of time-to-event data, or survival data. The mean residual life has been used for many years under the name of life expectancy, so it is a natural concept for summarizing survival or reliability data. It is also more interpretable than the popular hazard function, especially for communications between patients and physicians regarding the efficacy of a new drug in the medical field. This book reviews existing statistical methods to infer the residual life distribution. The review and comparison includes existing inference methods for mean and median, or quantile, residual life analysis through medical data examples. The concept of the residual life is also extended to competing risks analysis. The targeted audience includes biostatisticians, graduate students, and PhD (bio)statisticians. Knowledge in survival analysis at an introductory graduate level is



advisable prior to reading this book.