ME-626 General Quantitative Research Methods, ME-428 or corresponding courses
Læringsutbytte
On successful completion of the course, the candidate has:
Knowledge about
strategies for model building
evaluation of model assumptions
Skills
can evaluate initial data before analysis
can perform survival analysis with categorical and continuous independent variables
General competence
can independently plan, analyze, report and interpret own survival analysis and models
can interpret and critically evaluate survival analysis and models from published research
Innhold
Models assumptions
Initial evaluation of data
Analysis with continuous independent variables
Analysis with categorical independent variables
Strategies for model building
Interpretation of models
Arbeidsformer og arbeidsomfang
Lectures combined with practical statistical exercises in a computer lab. Examples of analysis of data will to a great degree be connected to the faculty’s on-going or planned research projects.
Vilkår for å gå opp til eksamen
Participation in compulsory lectures as stated in the course pamphlet.
Eksamen
Individual 5-days home examination. The examination will be assessed as pass/fail.