Section 14 Survival Data

This section will provide a brief introduction to survival data analysis, or similarly, “event history” or “duration” analysis.

Here are some supplemental resources:

• Overviews with R code (less on the technical aspects)
  • Focus on cox proportional hazards description here
  • Also includes Weibull and exponential models
  • Several examples (not much explanation) here
• Overview of the stats
  • Freedman. (2008). “Survival Analysis: A Primer” The American Statistician, Vol. 62, pp. 110–119.
  • And Chapter excerpt from Sage
• Applications and discussions in political science
  • Alt and King.(1994). (debate on government power transfers)
  • Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M. and Bradford S. Jones. 1997. “Time is of the Essence: Event History Models in Political Science.” American Journal of Political Science 45:972–988.
  • Beck, Nathaniel, Jonathan Katz, and Richard Tucker. 1998. “Taking Time Seriously: Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable.” American Journal of Political Science 42:1260-1288.