Statistics 6842 Survival Analysis and Clinical Trials Spring Quarter 2005

Who to Contact
Instructor: Dr. Rodney Wong
    Office:  318 North Sciences Hall
 Office Hours:   MW 4pm - 5:30 pm 
    Email:   rodwong@csuhayward.edu

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Course Syllabus	Data Sets
SAS Website	R Website
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Course Material

Homework Homework 5 (due Wednesday June 1) Homework 4 (revised due Monday May 16) Homework 3 (due Wed April 27) Homework 2 (due Wed April 13) Homework 1 (due Wed April 6)	Supplements Final Exam Monday June 6 Announcement Midterm 1 May 4 Annoucement D. Cox comments (1986) on his 1972 paper Regression models and Life-Tables D. Cox 1972
SAS Notes SAS tutorial on handling dates PROC PHREG Counting Process Andersen-Gill Intensity Model PROC PHREG (Cox Proportional Hazards Regression) PROC LIFETEST PROC LIFEREG Introduction to SAS Importing Excel Files to SAS Simple Examples of SAS Programs Introduction to SAS (Phil Spector)	R Notes Cox Proportional Hazards using R R Programming Tips Accelerated Failure Time Modelling in R Getting Started in R R versus SAS Importing Files in R Simple Examples of R programs History of R Introduction to R (Phil Spector) Introduction to R (Venables and Smith and R Core Dev. Team)
Statistics Cox Model Residuals and Graphical Checks for Proportional Hazards Assumption Cox Model Extension - Andersen-Gill Multiplicative intensity model Cox Model Baseline and Survival Probability Estimates Counting Processes and Martingales Introduction to Counting Processes Cox Model Parameter Interpretation Cox Proportional Hazards Regression and Asymptotic Tests Kaplan-Meier Nonparametric Estimate for S(t) Log rank test Nonparametric test for comparing K survival distributions Introduction to Proportional Hazards Models Accelerated Failure Time Models - Model Checking Accelerated Failure Time Models - Parameter Interpretation Accelerated Failure Time Models - More (revised) Accelerated Failure Time Models - Introduction Parametric Estimation for Survival Distribution Parameters Some Parametric Survival Distributions (eg Exponential, Weibull, Gamma) Introduction to Survival Analysis Definitions of Survival and Hazard Functions	Splus Notes Introduction to Splus (Phil Spector)