Statistical Inference on Residual Life

• Main Author: Jeong, Jong-Hyeon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Epidemiology.; Biostatistics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

This is a monograph on the concept of residual life, which is an alternative summary measure of time-to-event data, or survival data. The mean residual life has been used for many years under the name of life expectancy, so it is a natural concept for summarizing survival or reliability data. It is...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Inference on Mean Residual Life
• Quantile Residual Life
• Quantile Residual Life under Competing Risks
• Other Methods for Inference on Quantiles
• Study Design based on Quantile (Residual) Life
• Appendix: R codes
• References
• Index.