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Event History and Survival Analysis

Second Edition
  • Paul D. Allison - University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, USA


February 2014 | 112 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Social scientists are interested in events and their causes. Although event histories are ideal for studying the causes of events, they typically possess two features—censoring and time-varying explanatory variables—that create major problems for standard statistical procedures. Several innovative approaches have been developed to accommodate these two peculiarities of event history data. This volume surveys these methods, concentrating on the approaches that are most useful to the social sciences. In particular, Paul D. Allison focuses on regression methods in which the occurrence of events is dependent on one or more explanatory variables. He gives attention to the statistical models that form the basis of event history analysis, and also to practical concerns such as data management, cost, and useful computer software.

The Second Edition is part of SAGE’s Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (QASS) series, which continues to serve countless students, instructors, and researchers in learning the most cutting-edge quantitative techniques.

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Introduction
 
Discrete-Time Methods
 
Parametric Methods for Continuous-Time Data
 
Cox Regression
 
Multiple Kinds of Events
 
Repeated Events
 
Conclusion

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Key features

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

  • Provides a more complete treatment of censoring, including a worked example of how to test for sensitivity to informative censoring (in Chapter 2 on Discrete-Time Methods).
  • Gives more attention to accelerated failure time models. There is also more emphasis on interpretation of results and methods for assessing model fit (in Chapter 3 on Parametric Methods for Continuous-Time Data).
  • Includes more detail on the treatment of time-varying explanatory variables, using both the programming statements method and the episode splitting method. There is also more extensive discussion of methods for testing the proportional hazards assumption and methods for handling tied data. Finally, there is a brief section on using the Cox model to generate predictions (in Chapter 4 on Cox Regression).
  • Provides worked examples on testing differences in coefficients across different kinds of events. There is also a new section on cumulative incidence functions, an alternative and increasingly popular approach to competing risks (in Chapter 5 on Multiple Kinds of Events).
  • Describes several new methods that were unavailable when the first edition published, including negative binomial models for event-count data, robust standard errors, and shared frailty (random effects) models.  Methods based on gap times are distinguished from methods based on origin times (in Chapter 6 on Repeated Events).

KEY FEATURES:

  • Provides a user-friendly, non-mathematical approach that is accessible, clear, and easy-to-read
  • Emphasizes logistic regression models
Offers social scientists brief yet comprehensive coverage of a key method in quantitative methods

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter 1

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