| Abstract: | Survival analysis, a powerful set of statistical techniques, is introduced. These methods can be useful for turnover research and other behavioral studies with a binary dependent variable and multiple independent variables, any or all of which may be measured over time. Because survival analysis explicitly incorporates time as a variable of interest, it is more flexible and better able to extract and use information from longitudinal studies than methods more commonly used in applied psychology. In this article, we present survival analysis in an intuitive and applications-oriented manner. An application to turnover research is presented for purposes of illustration. With survival analysis, turnover may be viewed as a process whose intensity (rate) is allowed to vary over time rather than remain fixed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
