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Course fee and EPTO/APTO units differ for on-site training.Survival Analysis Using the Proportional Hazards Model
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Please note the System Requirements below. Course fee: $1,450 EPTO units: 2.8 CEUs: 1.2 | ||
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This outline is provisional and subject to change.
This course discusses survival analysis concepts with an emphasis on health care problems. The course focuses on the Cox proportional hazards model, not the parametric models, and is not designed for predictive modelers.
Learn how to
- perform exploratory data analysis using survival curves
- fit the proportional hazards model
- assess the fit of the model
- fit Cox proportional hazards models for repeated events and clustered observations.
Who should attend
Biostatisticians, epidemiologists, social scientists, and physical scientists
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Prerequisites
Before attending this course, you should
- be able to create SAS data sets and manipulate data. You can gain this experience from the SAS Programming II: Manipulating Data with the DATA Step course.
- have completed a statistics course such as the Statistics I: Introduction to ANOVA, Regression, and Logistic Regression or the Statistics II: ANOVA and Regression course.
Course Contents
Exploratory Data Analysis
- using the LIFETEST procedure to compute and plot survivor and hazard functions
- computing statistics that test for differences in survivor functions
- computing and plotting pointwise and simultaneous confidence intervals
- computing and interpreting stratified tests
- using the PHREG procedure to fit a Cox proportional hazards model
- validating the assumptions of the Cox proportional hazards model
- fitting Cox models for nonproportional hazards
- fitting Cox proportional hazards models for repeated events
- fitting Cox proportional hazards models for clustered observations
Software
This course addresses SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH. This course is offered on the Windows platform only.
Course Materials
Classroom: Students attend classroom courses in one of our public training centers. You receive
a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.
Live Web: Students attend Live Web classes using a Web browser and a telephone and interact with their instructor and fellow classmates in real time. Each student receives an e-mail with instructions on how to join the class three business days before the class begins. The instructions e-mail includes a link to download the course materials. Students need to download and print the course materials prior to class.
Live Web: Students attend Live Web classes using a Web browser and a telephone and interact with their instructor and fellow classmates in real time. Each student receives an e-mail with instructions on how to join the class three business days before the class begins. The instructions e-mail includes a link to download the course materials. Students need to download and print the course materials prior to class.
System Requirements
For Live Web, you must
- review and follow the general system requirements.
- complete the course exercises through our virtual lab. The virtual lab allows you to access the software used in class over the Internet, so that you do not need this software on your local machine.
- run this test to connect to a virtual lab session. If
firewall problems prevent you from connecting to the virtual lab, then you will need the following software installed and
configured in your environment to participate in the course exercises:
- Base SAS 9.2 or 9.1.3 on a Windows operating system or
SAS Learning Edition.
Important: Students using SAS Learning Edition will need to create a shortcut to the SAS windowing environment (SAS Explorer, Enhanced Editor, Log, and Output windows) for use during the class. Follow these instructions for creating a shortcut to SAS prior to class.
- Base SAS 9.2 or 9.1.3 on a Windows operating system or
SAS Learning Edition.
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