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Event history analysis is an umbrella term for a set of procedures for time series analysis. Event history models focus on the hazard function, which has to do with the probabilities that an event will occur after any given duration. Duration to the hazard of death was the classic example in medical research, but the hazard may have a positive meaning also, such as duration until the event of adoption of an innovation in diffusion research
Over the last two decades, event history analysis has emerged as a mature analytical tool in the social sciences. This four-volume edited collection, Event History Analysis, consists of a) classic papers that have been key in determining or explicating various subareas of event history analysis, and b) high quality applications ...
Editor's Introduction: Event History Analysis
The term “event history” was coined in 1979 by Nancy Brandon Tuma and colleagues in their classic article, “Dynamic Analyses of Event Histories” (Tuma, Hannan, and Groeneveld 1979). Since then, the statistical methods for analyzing event history data have diffused widely. Event history methods are now used routinely across numerous disciplines, including the social science fields of demography, economics, education, political science, and sociology.
Nevertheless, the intellectual roots of these methods have a long and distinguished history. This is reflected, in part, by the organization of Volume 1. After an introductory overview of event history methods (Wu 2003, Article 1), Volume I turns to four contributions on non-parametric estimation (Articles 2–4) that provide the theoretical statistical foundation that underlies many of ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Volume I
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Overview
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1. Event History Models for Life Course Analysis
Lawrence Wu
2003
Handbook of the Life Course
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Nonparametric Estimation: Theory
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2. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
E. Kaplan | Paul Meier
1958
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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3. Theory and Applications of Hazard Plotting for Censored Failure Data
Wayne Nelson
1972
Technometrics
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4. Nonparametric Inference for a Family of Counting Processes
Odd Aalen
1978
The Annals of Statistics
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5. Issues in Smoothing Empirical Hazard Rates
Lawrence Wu
1989
Sociological Methodology
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Nonparametric Estimation: Applications
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6. The Incidence of Divorce within Cohorts of American Marriages Contracted since the Civil War
Samuel Preston | John McDonald
1979
Demography
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7. Slipping into and out of Poverty: The Dynamics of Spells
Mary Bane | David Ellwood
1986
Journal of Human Resources
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8. Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children's Family Contexts in the United States
Larry Bumpass | Hsien-Hen Lu
2000
Population Studies
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9. Cohort Estimates of Nonmarital Fertility for U.S. Women
Lawrence Wu
2008
Demography
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The Cox Model: Theory
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10. Regression Models and Life-Tables
D. Cox
1972
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology)
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11. Understanding Cox's Regression Model: A Martingale Approach
Richard Gill
1984
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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The Cox Model: Applications
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12. Unemployment over the Life Cycle: Racial Differences and the Effect of Changing Economic Conditions1
Thomas DiPrete
1981
American Journal of Sociology
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13. Entry into Marriage and Parenthood by Young Men and Women: The Influence of Family Background
Robert Michael | Nancy Tuma
1985
Demography
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Parametric Models: Theory
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Benjamin Gompertz
1825
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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15. The Distribution by Age of the Frequency of First Marriage in a Female Cohort
A. Coale | D. McNeil
1972
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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16. The Process of Entry into First Marriage
Gudmund Hernes
1972
American Sociological Review
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17. A Comparison of the “Sickle Function” with Alternative Stochastic Models of Divorce Rates
Andreas Diekmann | Peter Mitter
1984
Stochastic Modelling of Social Processes
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Volume II: Volume II
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Parametric Models: Applications
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18. The Divergence of Black and White Marriage Patterns
Neil Bennett | David Bloom | Patricia Craig
1989
American Journal of Sociology
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19. The Social Inheritence of Divorce: Effects of Parent's Family Type in Postwar Germany
Andreas Diekmann | Henriette Engelhardt
1999
American Sociological Review
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Lauren Edelman
1990
American Journal of Sociology
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21. Contextual Effects in the Classroom: The Impact of Ability Groups on Student Attention
Diane Felmlee | Donna Eder
1983
Sociology of Education
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22. The Liability of Newness: Age Dependence in Organizational Death Rates
John Freeman | Glenn Carroll | Michael Hannan
1983
American Sociological Review
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Michael Hannan | Nancy Tuma | Lyle Groeneveld
1978
American Journal of Sociology
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24. Diverging Fertility among U.S. Women who Delay Childbearing Past Age 30
Steven Martin
2000
Demography
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25. Rewards, Resources, and the Rate of Mobility: A Nonstationary Multivariate Stochastic Model
Nancy Tuma
1976
American Sociological Review
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Christopher Uggen
2000
American Sociological Review
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Time-Varying Covariates: Applications
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27. Social Change, the Social Organization of Families, and Fertility Limitation
William Axinn | Scott Yabiku
2001
American Journal of Sociology
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28. The Ties that Bind: Principles of Cohesion in Cohabitation and Marriage
Julie Brines | Kara Joyner
1999
American Sociological Review
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29. Racial Rioting in the 1960s: An Event History Analysis of Local Conditions
Daniel Myers
1997
American Sociological Review
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30. Questions in Time: Investigating the Structure and Dynamics of Unfolding Classroom Discourse
Martin Nystrand | Lawrence Wu | Adam Zeiser | Daniel Long
2003
Discourse Processes
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31. Family Structure and the Risk of a Premarital Birth
Lawrence Wu | Brian Martinson
1993
American Sociological Review
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32. Effects of Family Instability, Income, and Income Instability on the Risk of a Premarital Birth
Lawrence Wu
1996
American Sociological Review
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Volume III: Volume III
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Discrete-Time Models: Theory
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33. Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories
Paul Allison
1982
Sociological Methodology
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34. Change and Stability in Educational Stratification
Robert Mare
1981
American Sociological Review
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Discrete-Time Models: Applications
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35. Mothers, Children, and Cohabitation: The Intergenerational Effects of Attitudes and Behavior
William Axinn | Arland Thornton
1993
American Sociological Review
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36. Two Decades of Family Change: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage
Megan Sweeney
2002
American Sociological Review
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37. No Trend in the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce
Jui-Chung Li | Lawrence Wu
2008
Demography
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Robert Hauser | Megan Andrew
2006
Sociological Methodology
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Unobserved Heterogeneity: Theory
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39. Heterogeneity's Ruses: Some Surprising Effects of Selection on Population Dynamics
James Vaupel | Anatoli Yashin
1985
The American Statistician
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James Heckman | B. Singer
1984
Econometrica
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41. Heterogeneity, Omitted Variable Bias, and Duration Dependence
Gary Chamberlain
1985
Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data
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42. Simultaneous Equations for Hazards: Marriage Duration and Fertility Timing
Lee Lillard
1993
Journal of Econometrics
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43. Kindred Lifetimes: Frailty Models in Population Genetics
James Vaupel
1990
Convergent Questions in Genetics and Demography
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Unobserved Heterogeneity: Applications
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44. Interrelated Family-Building Behaviors: Cohabitation, Marriage, and Nonmarital Conception
Michael Brien | Lee Lillard | Linda Waite
1999
Demography
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James Heckman | George Borjas
1980
Economica
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46. New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births
James Heckman | V. Hotz | James Walker
1985
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings
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Volume IV: Volume IV
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Competing Risks: Theory
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47. A Nonidentifiability Aspect of the Problem of Competing Risks
Anastasios Tsiatis
1975
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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48. The Identifiability of the Competing Risks Model
James Heckman | Bo Honoré
1989
Biometrika
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Competing Risks: Applications
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Kazuo Yamaguchi | Denise Kandel
1987
Journal of Marriage and the Family
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50. Social Capital and International Migration: A Test using Information on Family Networks
Alberto Palloni | Douglas Massey | Miguel Ceballos | Kristin Espinosa | Michael Spittel
2001
American Journal of Sociology
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Nonproportional Models
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Lawrence Wu | Nancy Tuma
1990
Sociological Methodology
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52. Log-Multiplicative Models for Discrete-Time, Discrete-Covariate Event-History Data
Yu Xie
1994
Sociological Methodology
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53. An Approach to Nonparametric Regression for Life History Data using Local Linear Fitting
Gang Li | Hani Doss
1995
The Annals of Statistics
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54. Trajectories of Fetal Loss in the Czech Republic
Elwood Carlson | Jan Hoem | Jitka Rychtarikova
1999
Demography
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Left Truncation and Left Censoring
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55. On the Treatment of Interrupted Spells and Initial Conditions in Event History Analysis
Alfred Hamerle
1991
Sociological Methods & Research
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Models for Clustered, Sequential, and Diffusion Processes
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Guang Guo | Germán Rodríguez
1992
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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57. The Distribution of Single-Spell Duration Data
Geert Ridder
1984
Studies in Labor Market Dynamics
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58. Multivariate Survivorship Analysis using Two Cross-Sectional Samples
Mark Hill
1999
Demography
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Narayan Sastry
1997
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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60. Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Diffusion
David Strang | Nancy Tuma
1993
American Journal of Sociology
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Lawrence Wu | Steven Martin
2009
Sociological Methodology
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