Survival Analysis

Graduate

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; regression diagnostics; further topics may include: 284 Winter 2027 Academic Calendar counting process approach, recurrent event analysis, time dependent covariates, frailty models, sequential and group sequential techniques and statistical learning algorithm. (May be offered as a cross-career course with STAT-4470).