Author: Wayne B. Nelson
Publisher: Society for Industrial Mathematics
Keywords: siam, asa, series, statistics, probability, applied, applications, recurrences, data, events, analysis, product, disease, repairs, recurrent
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 2003-01-03
List price: $102.50
ISBN-10: 0898715229
ISBN-13: 9780898715224

Survival data consist of a single event for each population unit, namely, end of life, which is modeled with a life distribution. In contrast, many applications involve repeated-events data, where a unit may accumulate any number of events over time. Examples include the number and cost of repairs of products, the number and treatment costs of recurrent disease episodes in patients, and the number of childbirths to statisticians. This applied book provides practitioners with basic nonparametric methods for such data, particularly the plot of the estimate of the population mean cumulative funct