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| Preface | p. xi |
| Terms and Notation | p. xv |
| Censored and Truncated Data | p. 1 |
| Right-censored data | p. 2 |
| Left truncation | p. 12 |
| Left truncation and right censoring | p. 14 |
| Nelson-Aalen and Kaplan-Meier estimators | p. 15 |
| Bibliographic notes | p. 17 |
| Chi-squared Tests | p. 19 |
| Chi-squared test for composite hypothesis | p.... MORE |
| Chi-squared test for exponential distributions | p. 31 |
| Chi-squared tests for shape-scale distribution families | p. 36 |
| Chi-squared test for the Weibull distribution | p. 39 |
| Chi-squared tests for the loglogistic distribution | p. 44 |
| Chi-squared test for the lognormal distribution | p. 46 |
| Chi-squared tests for other families | p. 51 |
| Chi-squared test for the Gompertz distribution | p. 53 |
| Chi-squared test for distribution with hyperbolic hazard function | p. 56 |
| Bibliographic notes | p. 59 |
| Exercises | p. 59 |
| Answers | p. 60 |
| Homogeneity Tests for Independent Populations | p. 63 |
| Data | p. 64 |
| Weighted logrank statistics | p. 64 |
| Logrank test statistics as weighted sums of differences between observed and expected number of failures | p. 66 |
| Examples of weights | p. 67 |
| Weighted logrank statistics as modified score statistics | p. 69 |
| The first two moments of weighted logrank statistics | p. 71 |
| Asymptotic properties of weighted logrank statistics | p. 73 |
| Weighted logrank tests | p. 80 |
| Homogeneity testing when alternatives are crossings of survival functions | p. 85 |
| Alternatives | p. 86 |
| Modified score statistics | p. 88 |
| Limit distribution of the modified score statistics | p. 91 |
| Homogeneity tests against crossing survival functions alternatives | p. 92 |
| Bibliographic notes | p. 97 |
| Exercises | p. 98 |
| Answers | p. 102 |
| Homogeneity Tests for Related Populations | p. 105 |
| Paired samples | p. 106 |
| Data | p. 106 |
| Test statistics | p. 107 |
| Asymptotic distribution of the test statistic | p. 107 |
| The test | p. 116 |
| Logrank-type tests for homogeneity of related k > 2 samples | p. 119 |
| Homogeneity tests for related samples against crossing marginal survival functions alternatives | p. 122 |
| Bibliographic notes | p. 124 |
| Exercises | p. 125 |
| Answers | p. 126 |
| Goodness-of-fit for Regression Models | p. 127 |
| Goodness-of-fit for the semi-parametric Cox model | p. 127 |
| The Cox model | p. 127 |
| Alternatives to the Cox model based on expanded models | p. 128 |
| The data and the modified score statistics | p. 129 |
| Asymptotic distribution of the modified score statistic | p. 133 |
| Tests | p. 137 |
| Chi-squared goodness-of-fit tests for parametric AFT models | p. 142 |
| Accelerated failure time model | p. 142 |
| Parametric AFT model | p. 144 |
| Data | p. 144 |
| Idea of test construction | p. 145 |
| Asymptotic distribution of Hn and Z | p. 146 |
| Test statistics | p. 151 |
| Chi-squared test for the exponential AFT model | p. 153 |
| Chi-squared tests for scale-shape APT models | p. 159 |
| Chi-squared test for the Weibull AFT model | p. 163 |
| Chi-squared test for the lognormal AFT model | p. 166 |
| Chi-squared test for the loglogistic AFT model | p. 169 |
| Bibliographic notes | p. 172 |
| Exercises | p. 173 |
| Answers | p. 174 |
| Appendices | p. 177 |
| Maximum Likelihood Method for Censored Samples | p. 179 |
| ML estimators: right censoring | p. 179 |
| ML estimators: left truncation | p. 181 |
| ML estimators: left truncation and right censoring | p. 182 |
| Consistency and asymptotic normality of the ML estimators | p. 186 |
| Parametric ML estimation for survival regression models | p. 187 |
| Notions from the Theory of Stochastic Processes | p. 191 |
| Stochastic process | p. 191 |
| Counting process | p. 193 |
| Martingale and local martingale | p. 194 |
| Stochastic integral | p. 195 |
| Predictable process and Doob-Meyer decomposition | p. 197 |
| Predictable variation and predictable covariation | p. 198 |
| Stochastic integrals with respect to martingales | p. 204 |
| Central limit theorem for martingales | p. 207 |
| Semi-parametric Estimation using the Cox Model | p. 211 |
| Partial likelihood | p. 211 |
| Asymptotic properties of estimators | p. 213 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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