Khmaladze, Estáte V.
.. . contains several very interesting relevant real historical examples, such as durations of rules of Roman emperors and number of survival data of male population of New Zealand. The book presents a nice, brief, and clear mathematical theory for statistical methods of the lifetime distribution function. ... a good text for a one-semester graduate course on survival analysis featuring demography or life insurance. ... The mathematical results and skills presented in the book will be also useful for researchers who are interested in survival analysis or reliability. --Biometrics, December 2013