Statistical Modelling of Survival Data with Random Effects: H-Likelihood Approach (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Chapter 1: Introduction.- 1.1:?Goals.- 1.2:?Motivating Examples.- 1.2.1:? Kidney Infection Data.- 1.2.2: Litter-Matched Rat Data.- 1.2.3: CGD recurrent Data.- 1.2.4: Bladder Cancer Multi-Center Data.- 1.2.5: Lung Cancer Multi-Center Data.- 1.2.6:? Breast Cancer Competing Risks Data.- 1.3:?Classical Survival Analysis.- 1.3.1:?Hazard and Survival Function.- 1.3.2:?Basic Likelihood Inference.- 1.3.3:?Cox-PH Models.- 1.3.4:?Accelerated Failure Time Models.- 1.4:?Overview.- Chapter 2:? H-likelihood.- 2.1:?Definition of H-likelihood.- 2.2:?Random Effect Models.- 2.3:?Inferential Procedures.- 2.4:?Deviances based on H-likelihood.- 2.5:?Comparison of H-and Marginal likelihoods.- 2.6:?Discussion and Further Reading.- 2.7:?Appendix.- Chapter 3: Simple Frailty Models.- 3.1:?Features of Correlated Survival Data.- 3.2:?The Model and H-likelihood.- 3.3:?Inferential Procedures using R.- 3.4:?Interval estimation of Frailty.- 3.5:?Variable Selection.- 3.6:?Discussion and Further Reading.- 3.7:?Appendix.- Chapter 4:? Multi-Component Frailty Models.- 4.1:?Multi-Component Frailty Models.- 4.1.1:?Multilevel (Nested) Frailties.- 4.1.2:?Time-Dependent Frailties.- 4.1.3:?Correlated Frailties.- 4.2:?Extension of Inferential Procedures.- 4.3:?Model Selection.- 4.4:?Software and Examples using R.- 4.5:?Discussion and Further Reading.- 4.6:?Appendix.- Chapter 5: Competing Risks Frailty Models.- 5.1:?Features of Competing Risks Data.- 5.2:?Classical Competing-Risk Models.- 5.3:?Cause-Specific Hazard Frailty Models.- 5.4:?Subdistribution hazard Frailty Models.- 5.5:?Semi-Competing Risks Frailty Models.- 5.6:?Software and Examples using R.- 5.7:?Discussion and Further Reading.- 5.8:?Appendix.- Chapter 6: Mixed-Effect Survival Models.- 6.1:?Mixed linear Models with Censoring.- 6.2:?Multilevel Mixed Models with Censoring.- 6.3:?Genetic Mixed Models under LTRC.- 6.4:?Software and Examples using SAS/IML.- 6.5:?Discussion and Further Reading.- 6.6:?Appendix.- Chapter 7: Special Topics.- 7.1:?Dispersion Frailty Models.- 7.2:?Frailty Models for Interval-Censored Data.- 7.3:?Non-PH Frailty Models.- 7.4:?Joint Survival Models.- 7.5:?Frailty modelling for Missing Cause of Failure.- 7.6:?Discussion and Further Reading