Basic Survival Analysis

Prerequisites: SPHBS 723 or 730. - The goal of the course is to prepare students to conduct rigorous analyses using basic approaches for time-to-event, or survival data. The course provides hands-on training using the SAS or R statistical software packages for comparing survival between groups, preparing adjusted comparisons, quantifying uncertainty, and predicting time-to-event outcomes. Also emphasized are the use of maximum likelihood to determine estimates and test hypotheses, use of descriptive and diagnostic plots.