This online course is run by the Researcher Academy
The Researcher Academy courses are very popular and the majority are run in both semesters to give you the opportunity to attend at a time of the year that suits you. Semester 1 courses will be available for booking from the second week of October and Semester 2 courses from the second week of February.
Target audience:
Postgraduate Research Students & Research Staff in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. If you are a postgraduate research student or researcher from a different faculty you must email mhsgc@nottingham.ac.uk to discuss relevance and eligibility to attend this course with the convenor.
This course is part of the M&HS Faculty Training Programme and N-trans Training Programme, which are convened by Researcher Academy.
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.
All participants must email the MHS 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 mhsgc@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.
Process: Online workshop using example datasets.
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
Related courses
M&HS Faculty Training Programme/N-trans
Researcher Academy Researcher Development Programme
Booking Conditions
Our webinars/ online courses are very popular, especially in the current period and we are experiencing large volumes of people on our waiting lists.
Please do let us know if you would like to cancel your place on this course so we can offer your place to another delegate.
Please note, attendances for webinars/ online courses will still be recorded and corresponding training points, when shown as available, will be awarded.
PRE-REQUISITES
This session may be recorded. If a recording is kept of the session, then please note, that it may be made available to the wider University of Nottingham researcher community.
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 mhsgc@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
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