<p>Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 250A, 255. Time-to-event data arise in many fields, such as medicine, reliability theory, demography, sociology, economics, and astronomy. Overview of common stochastic process models and methods for analysis of such data. Examples include continuous-time Markov chain and semi-Markov models, and frailty and copula models. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Biostatistics

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Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

Biostatistics encompasses the methodology and theory of statistics as applied to problems in the life and health sciences.

General Catalog

Advanced Survival Analysis

BIOSTAT 275

4 units