Competing Risks: A Practical Perspective Book – Melania Pintilie

I am selling a Competing Risks: A Practical Perspective – Melania Pintilie (Hardcover, Wiley) in excellent condition. Hardcover copy of Competing Risks: A Practical Perspective by Melania Pintilie (Ontario Cancer Institute), part of Wiley’s Statistics in Practice series. This is a standard reference for anyone working with time-to-event data in medical research, public health or the pharmaceutical industry. It is also a useful companion for graduate courses in biostatistics or applied statistics. Details: * Author: Melania Pintilie * Publisher: Wiley (Statistics in Practice series), 2006 * Format: Hardcover, 224 pages * ISBN: 0-470-87068-0 / 978-0-470-87068-6 * Condition: Excellent / like new. No highlighting, writing or water damage, tight binding What’s covered: * Survival analysis basics: Kaplan-Meier, hazard functions, censoring, log-rank tests and Cox models * Defining competing risks, including cause-specific hazards and the hazard of the subdistribution * The cumulative incidence function, estimation and variance * Testing covariates (Gray’s test, Pepe-Mori) * Modelling in the presence of competing risks and checking model assumptions * Sample size and power calculations * Conditional probability function, identifiability and parametric modelling * Worked examples with real cancer research data (tamoxifen trial, bone marrow transplant, Hodgkin’s disease and more) * Practice problems (“Food for thought” chapter) * Appendices with R code (cmprsk package) and SAS macros Comes from a pet and smoke-free environment. Pickup in Mount Pleasant (NW Calgary)