PUBH 8309 - Appl Surv Analys in Pub Hlth

(3) This course will cover the statistical concepts and techniques that are useful in the field of public health for the analysis of survival data or time to event data. The course will examine the features unique to survival data which distinguishes these data from other more familiar types of data. Topics include survival functions, hazard rates, types of censoring and truncation. Methods will include life tables, Kaplan-Meier plots, log-rank tests, Cox regression models, and Inference for parametric regression models. Statistical software recommended for this course are SAS and SPSS.