Schedule

This course is divided into 2 main sections:

  1. Basic tools for working with time-to-event data
  2. Tools to handle factors that vary over time

with time at the beginning and end of the course to put these tools into the context of asking and answering important public health questions.

This page provides quick links to the readings , lecture materials , and exercises .

Tools for Survival Analysis Content Reading Exercise
Jan 13 & 18 Time in epidemiology: Questions and parameters
Jan 20 & 25 Estimators of risk in settings with censoring
Jan 27 & Feb 1 Cox models
Feb 3 & 8 Comparisons of risk
Feb 10 & 15 Generalizability and transportability
Feb 17 & 22 Competing events
Feb 24 & Mar 1 Designing a time-to-event study
Mar 3 Exam Review
Mar 8 Exam
Mar 10 Exam Postmortem
Incorporating time-varying factors Content Reading Exercise
Mar 22 Taxonomy of time-varying exposures
Mar 24 & 29 Informative censoring
Mar 29 & 31 Per-protocol analyses using IPW
Apr 7 & 12 Target trials
Apr 14 Wellness day
Wrap-up Content Reading Exercise
Apr 19 & 21 Presentations on target trials
Apr 26 Wrap up: where do we go from here?