Overview: Statistical models and methods for lifetime and othertime-to-event data are widely used in many fields, including medicine,the environmental sciences, actuarial science, engineering, economics,management, and the social sciences. For example, closely relatedstatistical methods have been applied to the study of the incubationperiod of diseases such as AIDS, the remission time of cancers, lifetables, the time-to-failure of engineering systems, employmentduration, and the length of marriages. .This volume contains a selection of papers based on the .1994..International Research Conferen
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