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Analysis of Survival Data with Dependent Censoring

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This first chapter presents the purpose of the book. We first illustrate the issues of dependent censoring arising from medical research. We then explain several benefits of investigating dependent censoring. We finally illustrate how copula-based methods have been grown through the literature of survival analysis.

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  1. Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Takeshi Emura

  2. Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yi-Hau Chen

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Emura, T., Chen, YH. (2018). Setting the Scene. In: Analysis of Survival Data with Dependent Censoring. SpringerBriefs in Statistics(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7164-5_1

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