Get More Information from Recurrent Disease Data

Recurrent events data arise in biomedical, engineering, sociological, business, and many other applications. Despite over 25 years of literature articles and books on the analysis of such data, some current medical studies of recurrent diseases still use only each patient’s first recurrence time and ignore subsequent ones, thus losing information. This chapter provides an introduction to modern analysis of recurrent events data and gives new results on how much added information and accuracy are gained by the use of all recurrences.