Special issue dedicated to David Oakes

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Jong H Jeong, University of Pittsburgh; Amita Manatunga, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-09-06
• Publisher: SPRINGER
• Publication Version: Author Accepted Manuscript (After Peer Review)
• Copyright Statement: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10985-022-09572-6
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: LIFETIME DATA ANALYSIS
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 4
• Start Page: 543
• End Page: 545
• Keywords: Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications; Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Mathematics; Statistics & Probability

Abstract

We feel privileged to present this special issue to honor David Oakes, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at University of Rochester. Since David received his PhD degree with his thesis titled “Semi-Markov representations of some stochastic point processes” under the direction of Professor Sir David Cox at Imperial College, London, David’s contribution to the fields of Statistics and Biostatistics has been enormous and influential. His seminal work spans many areas, including Stochastic Processes and Probability, Univariate and Multivariate Censored Survival Data, Frailty and Copula Models, Mean Residual Life, and Win Ratio for Semi-Competing Risks Data. His influential paper “Bivariate Survival Models Induced by Frailties” (JASA, 1989), which has been cited over 1,100 times to date, introduced a new class of bivariate survival distributions that are induced by a common dependence structure (frailty) under the proportional hazards model. The monograph “Analysis of Survival Data”, co-authored with Sir David Cox, has received over 11,000 citations. At the turning point of the century, his recognition in the field led to invitations to write a Vignette on Survival Analysis for Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA, 2000) and Biometrika Centenary in Survival Analysis (Biometrika, 2001). David’s contribution to medical research has been also influential and well recognized in the areas of Environmental Health, Neurology, Toxicology, and Cardiology.