This face to face course is run by the Researcher Academy 
Target audience: Postgraduate Research Students & Research Staff in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Pre-requisites: The course involves practical application in either SPSS or STATA (not both); attendees should have a good working knowledge of basic statistics and of either SPSS or STATA.

 It is essential that all course participants have a working knowledge of the programme SPSS and/or STATA. If you do not, you must cancel your place to be allocated to someone else. Email bb-ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk with subject field ‘Survival Analysis (MHSSAS)’ if this is less than 2 days prior to the course date.

Course Description

Survival analysis is used when our data is about the time taken for some event to occur, for example the time from surgery until death. This course covers the descriptive analysis of such data as well as the regression methods used to adjust for confounders.
The course involves practical application in either SPSS or Stata; attendees should have a good working knowledge of basic statistics and of either SPSS or Stata.

Learning outcomes

• Understand the nature of survival data
• Know how to use SPSS or Stata to do basic descriptive analysis and graphical presentations of survival data
• Know how to carry out basic tests for comparisons of survival data
• Understand how to build and interpret the output from a Cox regression model

Process: This is a classroom based course. Practical workshop in a computer room using example datasets.

Course Accessibility

The following table shows a summary of what is needed to participate in the course. 

If you feel you will experience any difficulties participating, please let us know via the ‘special requirements’ tab, providing as much information as possible. The special requirements tab can be completed when you book your place. Alternatively, you can contact us directly at bb-ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk

Access and/or complete self-study/ pre-course tasks prior to main session
Print off pre-requisite paperwork/ resources & bring them to the course (optional)
Bring your own laptop/ PC to the course (optional)
Access seminar room on campus
Attend the course at the specified date and time
Watch and listen to the course tutor(s) and/or other attendees
Follow presentation slides during the course

Booking Conditions

Latecomer policy

Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment

When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course) or if at short notice by emailing bb-ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk

This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.

It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. The Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.

PRE-REQUISITES

The course involves practical application in either SPSS or STATA (not both); attendees should have a good working knowledge of basic statistics and of either SPSS or STATA.

The University now holds a site-wide licence for Stata and for SPSS. Both software can be accessed when networked to the University network.

All participants must email the Graduate Centre, who convene this course, to confirm that they have have a working knowledge of the programme (SPSS or STATA) of choice. If you do not confirm, your booking will be cancelled and place allocated to someone else. Email bb-ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk with subject field ‘Survival analysis (MHSSAS)’ to confirm as soon as possible and no later than 2 weeks prior to the course date