Survival Analysis in Medicine and Genetics

Using real data sets throughout, Survival Analysis in Medicine and Genetics introduces the latest methods for analyzing high-dimensional survival data. It provides thorough coverage of recent statistical developments in the medical and genetics fields.

The text mainly addresses special concerns of the survival model. After covering the fundamentals, it discusses interval censoring, nonparametric and semiparametric hazard regression, multivariate survival data analysis, the sub-distribution method for competing risks data, the cure rate model, and Bayesian inference methods. The authors then focus on time-dependent diagnostic medicine and high-dimensional genetic data analysis. Many of the methods are illustrated with clinical examples.

Emphasizing the applications of survival analysis techniques in genetics, this book presents a statistical framework for burgeoning research in this area and offers a set of established approaches for statistical analysis. It reveals a new way of looking at how predictors are associated with censored survival time and extracts novel statistical genetic methods for censored survival time outcome from the vast amount of research results in genomics.

Jialiang Li is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the National University of Singapore, an associate professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, and a scientist at the Singapore Eye Research Institute. He is on the editorial board of Biometrics and has published 70 peer-reviewed research papers in scientific journals. He has been a recipient the Young Scientist Award from the National University of Singapore and the New Investigator Grant and Cooperative Basic Research Grant from the National Medical Research Council.

Shuangge Ma is an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health at Yale University. He earned a PhD in statistics from the University of Wisconsin and completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. His research interests include survival analysis, semiparametric methods, bioinformatics, cancer studies, and health economics.