Business Knowledge Series course

This course teaches the concept of survival or time-to-event analysis and how to implement the technique using SAS Enterprise Miner. It discusses the applications of survival analysis to explore and model business time-to-event data. Participants will learn how to prepare data for analyzing event times and the factors that influence event times. Approaches to survival modeling are presented. The course also shows how to account for time-varying covariates. Hands-on examples and exercises are provided to reinforce ideas learned.

Learn how to

• use survival/time-to-event analysis in addressing business objectives
• prepare data for survival analysis
• perform data exploration on time-to-event data
• build survival models
• incorporate time-varying covariates into a survival model
• score new observations

Who should attend

Business users and analysts who want to apply survival analysis techniques on time-to-event data may attend the course. For those with SAS Enterprise Miner, this course will teach you how to implement time-to-event analysis using the software.

Formats available	Duration
Classroom:	2 days

There are no prerequisites to this course, although some SAS experience would be helpful.

Course Contents

• Principles in Time-to-Event Analysis
• Data Preparation and Layout for Time-to-Event Modeling
• Exploratory Data Analysis of Survival Data
• Approaches to Modeling Time-to-Event Data
• Building Survival Models
• Using Time-Varying Covariates
• Scoring New Data