STAT451-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Survival and Longitudinal Data Analysis

This occurrence is not offered in 2017

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

Survival and Longitudinal Data Analysis

Failure in mechanical systems, death or disease in biological organisms, occurrence of historical events – all these can be analysed using the branch of statistics known as survival analysis. The course will cover various censoring mechanisms, exploratory analysis and visualisation of event data, and various ways to model them, including Kaplan-Meier estimators, Cox regression, hierarchical models, and change-point analysis. R will be used for analysis of datasets from varying fields including epidemiology, engineering, biology and sociology. Students are encouraged, but not required, to know R beforehand.

It is useful to know about regression (STAT202), generalised linear models (STAT319) and likelihood inference (STAT213) beforehand.

Learning Outcomes

  • The course will enable students
  • to summarize and visualize event data
  • to apply Kaplan-Meier estimator in order to test for effect of different factors on the time-to-event outcome
  • to apply Cox regression in order to model the time-to-event phenomenon
  • to apply hierarchical models to longitudinal data
  • to apply parametric survival models, e.g. accelerated failure time models
  • to detect and estimate change-points in temporal processes

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School.

Course Coordinator

For further information see Mathematics and Statistics Head of Department

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $932.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mathematics and Statistics .

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