BTRY 4270 - Introduction to Survival Analysis

(crosslisted)
(also STSCI 4270)

Fall, spring. 3 credits. S-U or letter grade option.

Prerequisite: BTRY 4090, MATH 4720, or equivalent preparation; 3 semester of calculus.

R. Strawderman.

Develops and uses statistical methods appropriate for analyzing right-censored (i.e., incomplete) time-to-event data. Topics covered include nonparametric estimation (e.g., life table methods, Kaplan Meier estimator), nonparametric methods for comparing the survival experience of two or more populations, and semiparametric and parametric methods of regression for censored outcome data. Substantial use is made of the R statistical software package.