Survival Analysis in Medicine and Genetics

Download or read book Survival Analysis in Medicine and Genetics written by Jialiang Li and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using real data sets throughout, this text introduces the latest methods for analyzing high-dimensional survival data. With an emphasis on the applications of survival analysis techniques in genetics, it presents a statistical framework for burgeoning research in this area and offers a set of established approaches for statistical analysis. The book 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.