Advanced Statistical Modelling (Full-time)

Module code: MD7444

Survival Analysis

Survival analysis is concerned with data where we measure the time to an event. In medicine we are often interested in death, i.e. we want to keep people alive and make them live longer. We thus measure the time (from some suitable starting point) to death. The outcome of interest is the time to an event and we are unlikely to observe the event on all subjects.

Topics covered may include:

Introduction to Survival Analysis – censoring, the survival function, the Kaplan-Meier estimate, median survival, life-tables
Comparing Survival Curves - the log rank test, hazard ratio
Modelling Survival - proportional hazards, exponential model, Weibull model, the Cox model, partial likelihood, tied observations, interpreting regression coefficients
Model fitting and selection
Model checking and regression diagnostics for the Cox model

Multilevel Modelling

This module will Introduce you to multilevel modelling for the analysis of hierarchical and repeated measures data for both continuous and binary outcomes. You will have practical experience of working with a range of software packages and will also critique articles published in the medical literature using these techniques.

Topics covered may include:

Introduction to multilevel (hierarchical) data structures
Summary methods
Introduction to multilevel modelling and MLwiN
Multilevel models for longitudinal/repeated measures data
Multilevel models using Stata and R
Repeated binary data analysis using MLwiN
Alternative analysis: Generalised Estimating Equations (GEEs)