Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
On the Entropies and the Mutual Information of Some Bivariate Continuous Distributions Used in Reliability....Pages 1-5
Initial Conditions Problem in Event History Analysis: An Indirect Inference Procedure....Pages 7-11
Analysis of Survival Data under Competing Risks with Missing Cause of Death Information: Application and Implications for Study Design....Pages 13-19
Conditional Proportional Hazards Models....Pages 21-28
A Comparison of Conditional and Unconditional Inference Relating to Log-Gamma Distribution....Pages 29-37
Universal Formulas for Treatment Effects from Noncompliance Data....Pages 39-43
Foundational Issues Concerning the Analysis of Censored Data....Pages 45-51
Burn-in at the Component and System Level....Pages 53-57
Identification of Dependent Competing Risks Models....Pages 59-63
Reliability Modelling for Optical Amplified Communication Systems....Pages 65-69
A Parametric Approach to Measurement Errors in Receiver Operating Characteristic Studies....Pages 71-75
A Modification of Goel-Okumoto Model....Pages 77-84
Models for Degradation Processes and Event Times Based on Gaussian Processes....Pages 85-91
A Non-Parametric Two-Sample Survival Test Based on a Single Occupancy Fermi-Dirac Model for the Discrete Range Distribution....Pages 93-97
Probability Approximations and Inequalities for Sequential Tests....Pages 99-106
Cure Mixture Models in Breast Cancer Survival Studies....Pages 107-112
A General Approach to Derive Chi-Square Type of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Lifetime Data....Pages 113-123
Prediction in Survival Analysis: Model or Medic?....Pages 125-129
Dynamic Reliability Models....Pages 131-140
Generalizations of Current Status Data with Applications....Pages 141-148
Trend Analysis of Multiple Counting Processes....Pages 149-156
Historical Controls and Modern Survival Analysis....Pages 157-165
A Random Effects Model for Multivariate Life Data....Pages 167-174
Statistical Challenges in Comparing Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation as a Treatment for Leukemia....Pages 175-185
Maximum Likelihood Estimation and the Multivariate Bernoulli Distribution : An Application to Reliability....Pages 187-194
Intermediate Clinical Events, Surrogate Markers and Survival....Pages 195-206
A Semiparametric Bootstrap for Proportional Hazards Models....Pages 207-211
Application of Cox Regression with a Change Point in Clinical Studies....Pages 213-217
Burn-in with Age Replacement....Pages 219-226
Fitting Cox’s Proportional Hazards Model Using Grouped Survival Data....Pages 227-232
Statistical Methods for Dependent Competing Risks....Pages 233-242
Orthogonal Functions of Inverse Gaussian Distributions....Pages 243-250
Statistical Models for Quality of Life Measures....Pages 251-255
Nonparametric Estimation of Regression Parameters from Censored Data with Two Discrete Covariates....Pages 257-262
Locally Efficient Median Regression with Random Censoring and Surrogate Markers....Pages 263-274
Survival Models for Heterogeneity Using the Non-Central Chi-Squared Distribution with Zero Degrees of Freedom....Pages 275-279
Efficiently Weighted Estimating Equations with Application to Proportional Excess Hazards....Pages 281-289
Sequential Multi-Hypothesis Testing in Software Reliability....Pages 291-298
Assessing Gamma Frailty Models for Clustered Failure Time Data....Pages 299-305
The Shapes of a Probability Density Function and Its Hazard Function....Pages 307-314
Therapeutic Equivalence Using a Rich Family of Prior Distributions....Pages 315-322
Dependent Competing Risks with Time-Dependent Covariates....Pages 323-330
Life Estimation from Pooled Discrete Renewal Counts....Pages 331-338
Efficient and Ad Hoc Estimation in the Bivariate Censoring Model....Pages 339-346
Efficient Estimation in a Nonproportional Hazards Model....Pages 347-351
Modeling Frailty in Manufacturing Processes....Pages 353-361
Estimation of Wiener Diffusion Parameters Using Process Measurements Subject to Error....Pages 363-369
Adaptive Replacement Policies for a System of Parallel Machines....Pages 371-375
Discrete First Passage Time Distribution for Describing Inequality among Individuals....Pages 377-383
A Graphical Classification of Survival Distributions....Pages 385-392
Survival Analysis in S-Plus....Pages 393-394
A Note on Strong Uniform Consistency of Kernel Estimators of Hazard Functions under Random Censorship....Pages 395-399
Identifiability and Estimation of Marginal Survival Functions for Dependent Competing Risks Assuming the Copula is Known....Pages 401-408
Back Matter....Pages 409-409