Survival Analysis

Undergraduate

This course covers survivorship and hazard functions and their relationship to lifetime distributions and densities, types of censoring, the Kaplan-Meier and Nelson-Aalen estimators of the survivor and cumulative hazard functions, log rank tests, parametric survival time distributions and related regressions, semi-parametric regression models including the Cox’s PH model, and regression diagnostics. Further topics may include the counting process approach, recurrent event analysis, time dependent covariates, frailty models, sequential and group sequential techniques and statistical learning algorithms. (Prerequisite: STAT-3920 and STAT-3950.) (3 lecture hours per week.) (May be offered as a cross-career course with STAT-8470).