STA4712: Introduction to Survival Analysis
Instructor. Aaron J. Molstad (amolstad@ufl.edu)
Office hours. Thursday 9:30-10:30AM, 3:00-4:00PM in Griffin Floyd 202
Teaching assistant. Dipshi Roychowdhury (droychowdhury@ufl.edu)
TA Office hours. Monday 10:00AM – 12:00PM in Griffin Floyd 11D
Syllabus. [pdf]
Lecture. Tuesday 10:40–12:35PM, Thursday 10:40–11:30AM in Griffin Floyd 100
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| Lecture | Topic | |||
| 1 (1/10) | Syllabus, course introduction [slides][complete][R] | |||
| 1 (1/12) | Probability review | |||
| 2 (1/17) | Survival function [slides] [complete][R] | |||
| 2 (1/19) | Hazard function |
Homework 1 (Due Sunday, January 29th at 4:00pm) [pdf][solutions]
| 3 (1/24) | Mean residual life function, censoring, truncation [slides][complete][R] | |||
| 3 (1/26) | Likelihood construction | |||
| 4 (1/31) | Censoring assumptions [slides][complete][R] | |||
| 4 (2/2) | Kaplan-Meier estimator |
Homework 2 (Due Sunday, February 12th at 5:00pm) [pdf][solutions][rmd]
| 5 (2/7) | Confidence intervals for Kaplan-Meier [slides][complete][R] | |||
| 5 (2/9) | Log-rank test | |||
| 6 (2/14) | Likelihood-based inference [slides][exercise] | |||
| 7 (2/21) | Proportional hazards model [slides] | |||
| 7 (2/23) | Proportional hazards model continued | |||
| 0 (2/28) | Likelihood-based inference exercise [complete] | |||
| 0 (3/2) | Exam review |
Homework 3 (Due Sunday, February 26th at 5:00pm) [pdf][submission]
Exam 1
| 8 (3/21) | Accelerated failure time models [slides][complete] | |||
| 8 (3/23) | Parametric versus semiparametric AFTs | |||
| 9 (3/28) | Cox partial likelihood [slides][complete][code] | |||
| 00 (3/28) | Exam 1 solutions and discussion |
Homework 4 (Due Thursday, April 6th 5:00pm) [pdf]
| 9 (4/4) | Cox proportional hazards model | |||
| 9 (4/6) | Cox proportional hazards model continued | |||
| 10 (4/11) | Checking PH models [slides][complete][code1][code2] | |||
| 10 (4/12) | Performance metrics | |||
| 11 (4/18) | Competing risks [complete] | |||
| 11 (4/18) | Competing risks [complete] |
Homework 5 (Due Sunday, April 23rd 5:00pm) [pdf]