Overview
John D. Kalbfleisch is a Canadian-American biostatistician (University of Waterloo, later University of Michigan), a leading figure in survival analysis and failure-time data, co-author with Ross Prentice of the standard monograph The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data.
Key Contributions / Features
- Kalbfleisch (1978): Bayesian nonparametric analysis of the Cox model via a gamma-process prior on the cumulative hazard.
- The Kalbfleisch-Prentice (1973) marginal-likelihood derivation of Cox's partial likelihood; the Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data textbook (with R. Prentice, 1980).
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