Fall 2012 Course Syllabus:  Math 659

 

Course Title:

Survival Analysis

Textbook:

Survival Analysis: Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data,  by John P. Klein and Melvin L. Moeschberger; Publisher: Springer, 2nd edition (2003); ISBN-13: 978-0387953991.

 

Reference Books:

Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text, by David G. Kleinbaum and Michael Kline (2005, 2nd Ed.).
Survival Analysis Using S: Analysis of Time-to-Event Data, by Mara Tableman and Jong Sung Kim (2003).

Prerequisites:

Math 665 or equivalent with Departmental approval.

 

 

Course Outline

Date

Lecture

Sections

Topic

Assignment

Week 1

9/4

1

 

Sections 2.1

Lecture Note

Introduction to Survival Analysis

Introduction to R programming

 

 

Week 2

9/11

2

Sections 2.2-2.6

Basic Quantities of Survival Time

Basic Models for Survival Data

Homework 1

Week 3

9/18

3

Sections 3.1-3.5

 

Censoring and Truncation

 

Week 4

9/25

4

Sections 4.1-4.3

 

Nonparametric Estimation Methods (I)

 

Homework 2

Week 5

10/2

5

Sections 4.4, 4.6, 5.2

Nonparametric Estimation Methods (II)

 

Week 6

10/9

6

Sections 7.1-7.2

Hypothesis Testing (I)

Homework 3

Week 7

10/16

7

Sections 7.3 - 7.4

Hypothesis Testing (II)

 

Week 8

10/23

 

 

MIDTERM EXAM:

Tuesday ~ October 23, 2011

 

Week 9

10/30

8

Sections 7.5, 8.1-8.3

Hypothesis Testing (III)

Semiparametric Proportional hazards regression models and methods (I)

 

Survival Data Analysis Project

Homework 4

Week 10

11/6

9

Sections 8.4 -8.5

Semiparametric Proportional hazards regression models and methods (II)

 

Week 11

11/13

10

Sections 8.7, 9.1

Semiparametric Proportional hazards regression models and methods (III)

Refinements of the Semiparametric Proportional Hazards Model (I)

 Homework 5

Week 12

11/20

11

 

        NO CLASS ~ Follow a Thursday Schedule

 

Week 13

11/27

12

Sections 9.2-9.4

Refinements of the Semiparametric Proportional  Hazards Model (II)                

 Homework 6

Week 14

12/4

13

Sections 11.1-11.4

Regression Diagnostics

 

Week 15

12/11

14

 

Students’ Project Presentation

 

Week 16

12/18

 

 

FINAL EXAM:

Tuesday ~ December 18, 2012

 

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

FIRST DAY OF SEMESTER

September 4, 2012

LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW

November 6, 2012

LAST DAY OF CLASSES

December 12, 2012

FINAL EXAM PERIOD

December 14 – 20, 2012

 

Grading Policy

 

Assignment Weighting

 

Tentative Grading Scale

Homework

25 %

 

A

90 -- 100

Project

20 %

 

B+

85 -- 90

Midterm Exam

25 %

 

B

80 -- 85

Final Exam

30 %

 

C+

75 -- 80

 

 

 

C

70 -- 75

 

 

 

F

0 -- 70

 

 

 

Important Departmental and University Policies

 

 

Prepared by Prof. Wenge Guo, May 2, 2012