Survival Analysis by Shenyang Guo

Survival Analysis by Shenyang Guo

Survival analysis is a class of statistical methods for studying the occurrence and timing of events. Statistical analysis of longitudinal data, particularly censored data, lies at the heart of social work research, and many of social work research's empirical problems, such as child welfare, welfare policy, evaluation of welfare-to-work programs, and mental health, can be formulated as investigations of timing of event occurrence. Social work researchers also often need to analyze multilevel or grouped data (for example, event times formed by sibling groups or mother-child dyads or recurrences of events such as reentries into foster care), but these and other more robust methods can be challenging to social work researchers without a background in higher math.With clearly written summaries and plentiful examples, all written with social work issues and social work researchers in mind, this pocket guide will put this important statistical tool in the hands of many more social work researchers than have been able to use it before, to the field's benefit.

Shenyang Guo, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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ISBN 13	9780195337518
ISBN 10	0195337514
Title	Survival Analysis
Author	Shenyang Guo
Series	Pocket Guide To Social Work Research Methods
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2010-02-18
Number of pages	176
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