MATH 8348 Survival Analysis
Applied statisticians in many fields must frequently analyze time to event data. The focus of this course is on applications of the techniques to biology and medicine. However, the statistical tools discussed in this course are more broadly applicable to data from medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, engineering, economics, and demography. This course presents models and statistical methods for the analysis of recurrent event data. The analysis is complicated by issues of censoring, where an individual's life length is known to occur only in a certain period or truncation, where individuals enter the study only if they survive a sufficient length of time or if the event has occurred by a given date. Both parametric and nonparametric models are included with procedures for estimation, testing, and model checking.
Prerequisite
Consent of instructor.
Offered
As scheduled