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960-542 - Life Data Analysis - Spring, 2021

This document provides course information for 960-542 Life Data Analysis including instructor details, meeting times, required and recommended texts, course objectives, and requirements. The course will involve homework assignments, a midterm exam accounting for 30% of the grade, and a final exam accounting for 40% of the grade. Prerequisites are calculus and introductory statistics.

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960-542 - Life Data Analysis - Spring, 2021

This document provides course information for 960-542 Life Data Analysis including instructor details, meeting times, required and recommended texts, course objectives, and requirements. The course will involve homework assignments, a midterm exam accounting for 30% of the grade, and a final exam accounting for 40% of the grade. Prerequisites are calculus and introductory statistics.

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960-542– Life Data Analysis– Spring, 2021

Course Information
Instructor: John E. Kolassa
Office: Hill Center 565
Hours: 11-12 Thu 2:30-3:30 Wed 5:30-6:30 Tu,
Electronic Mail Address: [email protected],
Decorum appropriate to more conventional media should be observed in professional
electronic mail.
 848-445-7674, but please email rather than call.
Teaching Assistants: None.
CRN: 63200
Course Meeting Time: 6:40 – 9:30 PM HILL 552
Dates: See schedule.
Text:
Required:
Klein, J.P., and Moeschberger, M.L. (2013), Survival Analysis: Techniques for Censored and
Truncated Data, New York: Springer, 2.
Other texts I will consult:
Collett, D. (1994), Modeling Survival Data in Medical Research, Boca Raton: Chapman and
Hall.
Cox, D.R., and Oakes, D. (1984), Analysis of survival data, New York: Chapman and Hall.
Hettmansperger, T.P., and McKean, J.W. (1998), Robust nonparametric statistical methods, New
York: J. Wiley & Sons.
Kleinbaum, D.G. (1995), Survival Analysis: A Self–Learning Text, New York: Springer.
Woolson, R.F. (1987), Statistical methods for the analysis of biomedical data, New York: Wiley.
Objectives: To be able to perform complete survival analyses, including estimation of survival
functions and multivariate regression parameters, and diagnostic checking.
Requirements:
Homework: Homework will be assigned approximately biweekly, and will be graded.
Solutions will be supplied. Students are encouraged to consult with each other and the
instructor when contemplating these problems but are expected to draft their solutions
themselves. Students who submit correct homework solutions without fully understanding
them can expect substantially lower grades on exams. The lowest homework grade will be
dropped. This provision is meant to accommodate personal emergencies, and constitutes all
such indulgence I expect to give in most cases. Homeworks will constitute 30% of the final
grade. Students are responsible for locating computing resources needed for homeworks. I
expect (but do not require) that students will perform calculations using SAS.
Exams: Exams will be closed–book. Except possibly in the case of a bona fide emergency no
makeup exams will be given. Please notify the instructor of for predictable conflicts with
exam times during the first two weeks of class.
Midterm: in class, accounting for 30% of the final grade, on the course schedule.
Final: accounting for 40% of the final grade, on the course schedule.
Classroom participation: will not be explicitly graded. Students are responsible for any
information and assignments discussed in class.
Prerequisites: Calculus and introductory statistics 960-484.
Web Page: http://www.stat.rutgers.edu/home/kolassa/960-542

960-542 Course Information

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