STAT702

Prerequisite: STAT410 and STAT420; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department; or permission of instructor. Concepts/definitions of survival functions, hazard rate or hazard function, cumulative hazard functions, mean residual life, inversion formulas; Parametric models: exponential distribution, Weibull distribution; Censored/incomplete data and real data examples; right censored data, doubly censored data, interval censored data, truncated data; Nonparametric maximal likelihood estimator for the lifetime distribution under different types of censoring (e.g., Kaplan-Meier estimator), self-consistency estimators, the EM algorithm, applications of the empirical likelihood; Semiparametric models: accelerated lifetime model, proportional hazard model, the Cox model; Goodness of fit tests and diagnostic methods for model checking.