Comments on: Survival Analysis: A Primer

By: planet facts

planet facts — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:45:22 +0000

The student I study with now deals with survival analysis and he is writing a book… dont got much details but im going to send him this post… very nice btw.

By: vlk

vlk — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:46:01 +0000

A clarification -- the Eddington bias does not deal with censored data, if by that you mean a dataset that contains measurements and censoring. It does, however, describe how the distribution of a measured quantity is altered in the presence of detection thresholds, which in turn is the cause of censoring in a dataset.

By: hlee

hlee — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:36:05 +0000

Thanks for your comment. I’m glad to know the primer is highly considered. It was an accidental discovery from scheming the American Statistician. There were quite tutorial like articles.

Apart from a thank you note, I must say Schechter function which is used for describing incompleteness and basically it takes the form of Gamma distribution. It’s not always true that astronomers only name errors (both uncertainty and bias) instead of modeling them.

By: brianISU

brianISU — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:43:14 +0000

My Reliability professor considered this an extremely strong primer of life data analysis. I have been wanting to read it since my thesis work is on lifetime data.