BIOE 842 - Applied Survival Analysis

Cr Hrs: 3 (48-0-0)

Survival analysis refers to the statistical approach to analyze the occurrence and timing of events. Students will gain familiarity with the characteristics of time-to-event data such as the presence of censoring and time-varying covariates, and will learn to master the necessary statistical methods and techniques to design and analyze studies with survival data, including the construction and interpretation of Kaplan-Meier estimates, the Cox proportional hazards model, and methods for life table analysis. This course also extends the standard Cox model by introducing time-varying covariates and stratification as a way of dealing with non- proportionality of hazards. The course utilizes the software SAS and especially its PROC LIFETEST and PROC PHREG functions. This course is taught in a SAS computer lab with hands-on exercises. Enrollment is limited to eight students.

Grade Mode: Standard
Instructional Method: Lecture
Prerequisites: BIOE 811 Biostatistics for the Health Sciences I; BIOE 813 Fundamentals of SAS for Epidemiology; BIOE 821 Biostatistics for the Health Sciences II; permission from instructor
Term offered: Fall

Fall - Instructor of Record: Fridtjof Thomas