Customer Review: The authors provide a really nice, non-technical survey of the landscape for Cox Proportional Hazards models. A nice aspect of their treatment is the care they take to reference all highly technical texts and journal articles. For example, if you'd like to find out more about goodness-of-fit tests... more info
Customer Review: A good book that certainly has practical application. It details the rise in use of this particular technique, and where it is applicable. Also details multiple varieties including multinomial and others. This is definitely a mathematics text that is worth the time to take a look at.
Customer Review: Both authors are from public health schools. One is from Amherst, MA. Go Umass! This does make studying statistics more interesting. One can easily adapt the sampling design and methods to marketing surveys that are required of MBA students.
Customer Review: Listen - chances are, if you're using this book, you're taking an upper level Statistics/Math/Epidemiology class. You MORE THAN LIKELY have a teacher who is going to go over any assignments they are going to give you from the main book. The wording of the questions in the main book is honestly so... more info
Customer Review: This book is a catch 22. I thought the solutions manual, making the book cost an extra 40 dollars, was unnecessary. This book is a catch 22 - there are no better books for my level of study (Master's level Epidemiology) that aren't beyond what I can grasp, but many bland biostatistics textbooks... more info
Customer Review: I bought this book by mistake because the words "Solutions manual to accompany..." were at the time put last in Amazon's title tag. I did get the main book, read that one carefully and found it helpful. The solutions manual, however, never proved useful. It is just page upon page of drab computer... more info
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