PQHS 435: Survival Data Analysis, Spring 2023
The course information
Syllabus
(MS word).
Lecture
notes
.
THE FINAL EXAM
:
questions
and
related materials
.
THE SAMPLE MIDTERM EXAM
questions
from year 2005 and the
related material
for question no. 3 (the melanoma study).
SAS and Splus programs:
chapters 1 and 2
;
chapters 3 and 4
;
chapters 5 and 6
;
chapters 8 and 15
;
chapter 11
.
The importance of censoring (event): The STEEP system for BCa
version 1
and
version 2
.
Generate a figure as a file in different
format
in SAS.
The shapes of
weight
in a family of weighted log rank statistics and the related Splus function
weight.s
.
Homework assignments
Assignment one: the data from a randomized study in patients with NSCLC
nsclc.xls
.
Assignment two: the data for clinical trial of chronic active hepatitis
cah.dat
(Table B.1, page 491).
Assignment three: data for recurrence of bladder cancer study
bladder.dat
(Table B.2, page 493).
Assignment four: data for multiple myeloma study
myeloma.dat
(Table 1.3, page 9).
Assignment five: data for kidney cancer study
kidney.dat
(Table 3.6, page 81).
Assignment six and seven: data for prostatic cancer study
prostat.dat
(Table 1.4, page 11).
Assignment eight and nine: Recurrence of bladder cancer study
bladder.dat
(Table B.2, page 493).
Assignment ten: the data for bone marrow transplantation study
bmt.dat
(Table B.4, page 496).
Some links relevant to the course
The computing
resourses
at Case UTech.
Publisher's
Website
of David Collet's book (Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research) and CWRU
bookstore
.
SAS/STAT
onlinedoc
and Splus
User Doc
at
TIBCO
.
The comparison of
statistical packages
.
Terry Therneau
at Mayo Clinic.
Statistical Computing Resources
SCR
at UCLA.