Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis

Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis is book that includes ‘hands-on’ exercises, and resources for both students and instructors, covers up-to-date innovations in the field, including advancements in the assessment of model fit, frailty and recurrent events, discrete-time, multistate models and sequence analysis. Readers are offered a blueprint for their entire research project from data preparation to model selection and diagnostics. Practical instructions are also included for using the statistical programs of R, enabling readers to replicate the examples described in the text.