Survival Analysis

About

Survival data, or more generally, time-to-event data (where the 'event' can be death, disease, recovery, relapse or another outcome), is frequently encountered in the biomedical sciences. Censoring is a problem characteristic to most survival data, and requires special data analytic techniques.

This course will give an introduction to survival analysis and will cover many of the types of survival data and analysis techniques regularly encountered in biomedical research. The course will focus on practical examples, with an emphasis on matching data analysis to the research question at hand. The daily schedule includes interactive lectures by experienced and enthusiastic lecturers, interwoven with lab sessions that give students the opportunity to apply the theory to real datasets. Examples from medical and biological research will be used in the exercises.

We offer this course in small groups, to guarantee the attention needed for each participant and to create a learning environment that encourages the participants to be actively involved in the learning activities. Therefore, the maximum number of participants is 20, the minimum number is 12 (if the minimum number of enrollments is not reached by the deadline date (see below), then the course will be cancelled).

Please note that there are no graded activities included in this course. Therefore, we are not able to provide participants with a transcript of grades. You will obtain a certificate upon completion of this course.

Note: both SPSS and R can be used during computer labs. While most techniques covered can be performed in SPSS, several require the use of R (or another package, such as Stata or SAS). Those unfamiliar with the (free) statistics package R are strongly encouraged to practice with it before beginning the course.

Course leader

Rebecca Stellato

Fee info