Introduction to survival analysis

Lecture notes

Slides can be downloaded (in PDF format) here

Code (and data) for reproducing the analyses shown in the lecture

Stata: survival_intro.do

SAS: survival_intro.sas

R: survival_intro.R

R: kaplan-meier-by-hand.R

Other resources

• Germán Rodríguez (Princeton University) has a wealth of high-quality teaching material on his web page. In particular;

• Stata and R code for Kaplan-Meier estimation and log rank test.

• Lecture notes on Non-parametric Estimation in Survival Models. Contains greater mathematical detail than my lecture notes. Covers the Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox regression, and more.