Survival Analysis: A Survey

This paper is a survey of statistical methods used to analyze the length of time until a specified event occurs. These models have often been used to analyze the survival times (i.e., time until death) of medical patients, and so the term survival analysis is natural. In criminology, the main applic...

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Published in:Journal of quantitative criminology 1991-03, Vol.7 (1), p.59-98
Main Authors: Chung, Ching-Fan, Schmidt, Peter, Witte, Ann D., Witte, Ana D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Censorship
Criminal justice
Criminals
Criminology
Cumulative distribution functions
Mathematical independent variables
Medical sciences
Modeling
Parametric models
Prisons
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Recidivism
Social research
Statistics
Techniques and methods
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Summary:This paper is a survey of statistical methods used to analyze the length of time until a specified event occurs. These models have often been used to analyze the survival times (i.e., time until death) of medical patients, and so the term survival analysis is natural. In criminology, the main application of these models has been to analyze the time until recidivism, but many other applications are possible. The paper summarizes the statistical literature on survival analysis, and describes its applications in criminology. The methods are illustrated by an application to the prediction of time until recidivism for a sample of North Carolina prison releasees.
ISSN:0748-4518
1573-7799
DOI:10.1007/BF01083132