Survival Models

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Nature and properties of survival models; methods of estimating tabular models from both complete and incomplete data samples including actuarial, moment and maximum likelihood techniques; estimations of life tables from general population data; Kaplan-Meier estimator and Nelson-Allan estimator; the accelerated failure time model; the Cox proportional hazards model; model building and high-dimensional survival data analysis. Prerequisite(s): Statistics 429. Antirequisite(s): Credit for Statistics 533 and either 633 or 433 will not be allowed.