SURVIVAL ANALYSIS Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data. John P. Klein and Melvin L. Moeschberger Front Matter 1 Examples of Survival Data 2 Basic Quantities and Models 3 Censoring and Truncation 4 Nonparametric Estimation of Basic Quantities for Right-Censored and Left-Truncated Data 5 Estimation of Basic Quantities for Other Sampling Schemes 6 Topics in Univariate Estimation 7 Hypothesis Testing 8 Semiparametric Proportional Hazards Regression with Fixed Covariates 9 Refinements of the Semiparametric Proportional Hazards Model 12 Inference for Parametric Regression Models Appendix A- Numerical Techniques for Maximization; Appendix B - Large-Sample Tests Based on Likelihood Theory; Bibliography; Author and Subject Indices