Program (detailed contents):
– Survival distributions: specific functions, usual laws for durations
– The notion of censoring and truncation
– Parametric estimation
– Non-parametric estimation of the survival function and the hazard function (Kaplan-Meier, Nelson-Aalen)
– Adequacy to a probability law and study of the heterogeneity between subgroups
– Parametric regression models
– The semi-parametric Cox model: estimation and model validation
– Applications in the field of reliability or survival analysis
