Undergraduate Course: The Analysis of Survival Data (MATH11024)
Course Outline
| School | School of Mathematics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Mathematics |
Other subject area | Specialist Mathematics & Statistics (Honours) |
| Course website |
https://info.maths.ed.ac.uk/teaching.html |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Course for final year students in Honours programmes in Statistics.
Survivor functions and hazard rates. The life table. Actuarial notation. Practical calculation of probabilities using life tables. The Weibull distribution and its uses in reliability theory. The life table as a multiple-state model. Other multiple-state models and the Kolmogorov Forward Equations. Estimation of transition intensities by maximum likelihood. Confidence intervals for transition intensities. Binomial and Poisson models for morality rates. Graduation of life tables. Some demographic terms. Clinical trials. The Kaplan-Meier estimate of the survival function. The log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards techniques. Checking the proportional hazards assumption. Meta-analysis. The use of SPSS in survival analysis. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1. A knowledge of some aspects of medical statistics
2. A knowledge of some material for the Examinations of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
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Assessment Information
Examination only.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | ASD |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Jim Wright
Tel: (0131 6)50 8570
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Course secretary | Mrs Alison Fairgrieve
Tel: (0131 6)50 5045
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