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[ 951STMOSANK14 ] KV Survival Analysis

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
4 ECTS M2 - Master's programme 2. year Statistics Helga Wagner 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Master's programme Statistics and Data Science 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students are able to analyse survival data, to interprete the results correctly and perform a residual analysis of the fitted models
Skills Knowledge
  • Knowing and understanding of the basic problems, concepts and methods of survival analysis (k1,k2)
  • Knowing and understanding of the basic problems, concepts and methods of multistate and competing risk models (k1,k2)
  • Fitting, model choice and residual analysis of regression models for survival and competing risk data with statistic software R (k3)
  • Implementing and performing simulation studies for survival data (k2,k3)
  • Basic concepts for survival times (Survival function, hazard, cumulative hazard) and their relations
  • Missing and incomplete information in survival data (Censoring, truncation)
  • Estimation of the survival function (Kaplan-Meier estimator, Nelson-Aalen estimator)
  • Log-Rank Test
  • Regression models for Survival Times: Accelerated failure time model and proportional hazards model
  • Residual analysis for Cox-PH models
  • Time dependent covariates and time-varying effects
  • Competing risk and multistate models
  • Cumulative incidence function

Criteria for evaluation Exam
Project report
Methods Lecture
Computer Lab
Language English
Study material Broström G. (2012). Event History Analysis, Taylor & Francis

Hosmer D. W. and Lemeshow S. (2003). Applied Survival Analysis, Wiley

Klein J. P. and Moeschberger M. L. (1997). Survival Analysis, Springer

Changing subject? No
Corresponding lecture in collaboration with 951STCOCSTK14: KV Computational Statistics (4 ECTS) equivalent to
4MSCVDPR: PR Computerintensive Verfahren in der Datenanalyse (6 ECTS)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 40
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority