STK9080 – Survival and Event History Analysis
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The course gives an introduction to the most important concepts and methods in survival and event history analysis. These methods have applications for instance in insurance, medicine and reliability. Topics that are presented are: censoring and truncation, non-parametric estimation of hazard and survival functions (Nelson-Aalen and Kaplan-Meier estimators), log-rank test and other non-parametric tests, parametric survival models, Cox` proportional hazards model, nested case-control and case-cohort studies, frailty models and marginal models.
Learning outcome
The course gives the background for analyzing a wide specter of models for time to one event as well as models for complex event histories. The course gives a practical introduction to these methods as well as a theoretical understanding of them.
Admission to the course
PhD candidates from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo should apply for classes and register for examinations through Studentweb.
If a course has limited intake capacity, priority will be given to PhD candidates who follow an individual education plan where this particular course is included. Some national researchers’ schools may have specific rules for ranking applicants for courses with limited intake capacity.
PhD candidates who have been admitted to another higher education institution must apply for a position as a visiting student within a given deadline.
Recommended previous knowledge
- STK1100 – Probability and Statistical Modelling
- STK1110 – Statistical Methods and Data Analysis
- one of the following courses:?
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with STK4080 – Survival and Event History Analysis.
Teaching
4 hours of lectures/exercises per week throughout the semester.
The course may be taught in Norwegian if the lecturer and all students at the first lecture agree to it.
Upon the attendance of three or fewer students, the lecturer may, in conjunction with the Head of Teaching, change the course to self-study with supervision.
Examination
Final written exam? or final oral exam, which counts 100 % towards the final grade.
The form of examination will be announced by the lecturer by 1 October/1 March for the autumn semester and the spring semester respectively.
This course has 1 mandatory assignment that must be approved before you can sit the final exam.
In addition, each PhD student is expected to give an oral presentation on a topic of relevance chosen in cooperation with the lecturer. The presentation has to be approved by the lecturer for the student to be admitted to the final exam.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: STK4080 – Survival and Event History Analysis
Examination support material
For written examination: Approved calculators are allowed.?Information about approved calculators (Norwegian only)
For oral examination: No examination support material is allowed.
Language of examination
Courses taught in English will only offer the exam paper in English. You may write your examination paper in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about?the grading system.
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.