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, and by truncation, where individuals enter the study only if they survive a sufficient length of time or individuals are included in the study only if the event has occurred by a given date. Both parametric and nonparametric models are included with procedures for estimation, testing, and model checking.

Credits

3

Corequisite

MATH 6364 or consent of the instructor

Schedule Type

Lecture

Grading Basis

Standard Letter (A-F)

Offered

As scheduled