This greatly expanded third edition of Survival analysis : a self-learning text provides a highly readable description of state-of-the-art methods of analysis of survival/event-history data. The third edition continues to use the unique "lecture-book" format of the first two editions with one new chapter, additional sections and clarifications to several chapters, and a revised computer appendix. The Computer Appendix, with step-by-step instructions for using the computer packages STATA, SAS, and SPSS, is expanded this third edition to include the software package R.