Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis: With R Implementation, Second Edition

By Mai Zhou

This book systematically covers empirical likelihood methods in most important topics in survival analysis: the Kaplan-Meier and the Nelson-Aalen estimator, the log rank test, the Cox proportional hazards model and the accelerated failure time models. In addition, it also covers an extension of the Cox model-the short term/long term hazard ratio model of Yang and Prentice. Finally, empirical likelihood methods with current status data or type I interval censored data are investigated: estimation/test for the mean/hazard/probability and regression models are discussed.

The author of this book is also the author of several R packages for empirical likelihood calculations with survival data. Every topic discussed gets immediately put into action with R code in examples that users can replicate and experiment with.

Includes more than 70 examples illustrating the use of empirical likelihood, many with real data. Provides complete R computational codes that reader can replicate the results in the book. Includes over 80 exercise problems making it suitable to be adopted as a textbook. Newly added materials now cover more general types of censored survival data.

Mai Zhou is a professor emeritus at University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Columbia University.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032986352
• ISBN13: 9781032986357
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 384 Pages