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SUMMARY:Center for Statistical Training & Consulting Workshop: Introduction to Survival Analysis
DESCRIPTION:
 This workshop provides an introduction to the 
 increasingly popular methodology of survival 
 analysis, event history modeling, and duration 
 analysis in the medical, social, behavioral, 
 economics and educational sciences. The fundamental 
 concepts of censoring, survival function 
 and hazard function estimation as well as 
 its comparison across groups via the Kaplan-Meier 
 product limit estimator. The widely used 
 Cox proportional hazards model is then focused 
 on. Methods for examining possible violations 
 of its assumptions are also indicated, 
 as are extensions of the model when they are 
 not fulfilled.\n\n
 Price: Free to Graduate Students, Faculty and Research 
 Staff\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Dr. Brian Silver\n
 Contact phone: 517-353-9288\n
 Contact email: bsilver@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.cstat.msu.edu/services/workshops/workshop.aspx?id=1630\n
LOCATION:106 Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall
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