This volume examines modern techniques and research problems in the analysis of lifetime
data analysis. This area of statistics deals with time-to-event data which is complicated not …

Multistate Models for the Analysis of Life History Data provides the first comprehensive
treatment of multistate modeling and analysis, including parametric, nonparametric and …

When research questions require the use of precious samples, expensive assays or
equipment, or labor-intensive data collection or analysis, nested case–control or case …

The case-control approach is a powerful method for investigating factors that may explain a
particular event. It is extensively used in epidemiology to study disease incidence, one of the …

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 …

In many large prospective cohorts, expensive exposure measurements cannot be obtained
for all individuals. Exposure–disease association studies are therefore often based on …

Two-or multi-phase study designs are often used in settings involving failure times. In most
studies, whether or not certain covariates are measured on an individual depends on their …

Nested case‐control designs are inevitably less efficient than full cohort designs, and it is
important to use available information as efficiently as possible. Reuse of controls by inverse …

Reuse of controls in a nested case–control (NCC) study has not been considered feasible
since the controls are matched to their respective cases. However, in the last decade or so …

Nested Case-Control and Case-Cohort Studies Page 1 17 Nested Case-Control and Case-Cohort
Studies Ørnulf Borgan and Sven Ove Samuelsen University of Oslo CONTENTS 17.1 …