The Journal of the American Medical Association has published quite a few research articles that investigate survival data. The following are some suggested articles that you might examine:
• T. G. Liou, F. R. Adler, B. C. Cahill, S. C. FitzSimmons, D. Huang, J. R. Hibbs, and B. C. Marshall, “Survival Effect of Lung Transplantation Among Patients with Cystic Fibrosis,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 286 (2001): 2683– 2689.
• K. Shear, E. Frank, P. R. Houck, and C. F. Reynolds III, “Treatment of Complicated Grief: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 293 ( 2005): 2601– 2608.
• M. S. Sulkowski, R. D. Moore, S. H. Mehta, R. E. Chaisson, and D. L. Thomas, “Hepatitis C and Progression of HIV Disease,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 288 (2002): 199–206. Select an article that implements survival analysis methods, and answer the following: a. Provide a brief description of the objective of the survival analysis study.
b. Describe the time- to- event variable and define the beginning of time. Discuss whether right censoring is present in the data. If any other types of incomplete data were used, briefly explain. (Other types of incomplete data were discussed in Section 9.9.)
c. Describe any survival analysis techniques used in the paper that were covered in this chapter (e. g., the Kaplan- Meier estimator). Also list the names of other techniques used in the study that were not covered.
d. Briefly summarize the results and conclusions of the study.