Preface
I.Introduction
I.1GeneralIntroductiontotheBook
1.2BriefSurveyoftheDevelopmentoftheSubject
1.3PresentationofPracticalExamples
II.TheMathematicalBackground
II.1AnInformalIntroductiontotheBasicConcepts
II.2Preliminaries:Processes,Filtrations,andStoppingTimes
II.3MartingaleTheory
II.4CountingProcesses
II.5LimitTheory
II.6Product-IntegrationandMarkovProcesses
II.7LikelihoodsandPartialLikelihoodsforCountingProcesses
II.8TheFunctionalDelta-Method
II.9BibliographicRemarks
III.ModelSpecificationandCensoring
III.1ExamplesofCountingProcessmodelsforCompleteLife
HistoryData.TheMultiplicativeIntensityModel
III.2Right-Censoring
III.3Left-Truncation
III.4GeneralCensorship,Filtering,andTruncation
III.5PartialModelSpecification.Time-DependentCovariates
III.6BibliographicRemarks
IV.NonparametricEstimation
IV.1TheNelson-Aalenestimator
IV.2SmoothingtheNelson-AalenEstimator
IV.3TheKaplan-MeierEstimator
IV.4TheProduct-LimitEstimatorfortheTransitionMatrixofa
NonhomogeneousMarkovProcess
IV.5BibliographicRemarks
V.NonparametricHypothesisTesting
V.1One-SampleTests
V.2k-SampleTests
V.3OtherLinearNonparametricTests
V.4UsingtheCompleteTestStatisticProcess
V.5BibliographicRemarks
VI.ParametricModels
VI.1MaximumLikelihoodEstimation
VI.2M-Estimators
VI.3ModelChecking
VI.4BibliographicRemarks
VII.RegressionModels
VII.1Introduction.RegressionModelFormulation
VII.2SemiparametricMultiplicativeHazardModels
VII.3Goodness-of-FitMethodsfortheSemiparametric
MultiplicativeHazardModel
VII.4NonparametricAdditiveHazardModels
VII.5OtherNon-andSemi-parametricRegressionModels
VII.6ParametricRegressionModels
VII.7BibliographicRemarks
VIII.AsymptoticEfficiency
VIII.1Contiguityand'LocalAsymptoticNormality
VIII.2LocalAsymptoticNormalityinCountingProcessModels
VIII.3Infinite-dimensionalParameterSpaces:theGeneralTheory
VIll.4SemiparametricCountingProcessModels
VIII.5BibliographicRemarks
IX.FrailtyModels
IX.1Introduction
IX.2ModelConstruction
IX.3LikelihoodsandIntensities
IX.4ParametricandNonparametricMaximumLikelihood
EstimationwiththeEM-Algorithm
IX.5BibliographicRemarks
X.MultivariateTimeScales
X.1ExamplesofSeveralTimeScales
X.2SequentialAnalysisofCensoredSurvivalDatawith
StaggeredEntry
X.3NonparametricEstimationoftheMultivariateSurvival
Function
X.4BibliographicRemarks
AppendixTheMelanomaSurvivalDataandStandardMortality
TablesfortheDanishPopulation1971-75
References
AuthorIndex
SubjectIndex