BIST P8108 - Survival Analysis

Fall 2021

Full semester Tsai, Wei-Yann

3 Section # 001
Call # 16327

This course focuses on methods for the analysis of survival data, or time-to-event data. Survival analysis is a method for
analyzing survival data or failure (death) time data, that is time-to-event data, which arises in a number of applied
fields, such as medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, engineering, economics, and demography. A special
course of dif ficulty in the analysis of survival data is the possibility that some individual may not be observed for the full
time to failure. Instead of knowing the failure time t, all we know about these individuals is that their time-to-failure
exceeds some value y where y is the follow-up time of these individuals in the study. Students in this class will learn
how to make inference for the event times with censored. Topics to be covered include survivor functions and hazard
rates, parametric inference, life-table analysis, the Kaplan-Meier estimator, k-sample nonparametric test for the
equality of survivor distributions, the proportional hazards regression model, analysis of competing risks and bivariate
failure-time data.

Credits: False
Course pre-requisites: 3
Required permissions: P6103, P6104, or the Quant core module; at least one course in probability and statistical inference

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