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Week
No.
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Literature
R & H
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Topic
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Comment
R & H
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3
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2.1-2.14, 2.17, 2.20
Notes:
Log-location-scale families (22.01)
Independent censoring (24.01).
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Probability distributions for lifetimes.
Fundamental properties. Important distributions and properties.
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Only main results in 2.17 are covered.
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4-5
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11.1-11.3, 11.5
Notes:
About the exponential distribution (30.01)
The logrank test
(12.02)
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Lifetime data. Censoring. Nonparametric
methods. Plotting (TTT, Kaplan-Meier, Nelson-Aalen.)
The logrank test.
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6-8
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11.4
Notes:
Likelihood construction (13.02)
On parametric inference (13.02)
The standard confidence interval (19.02)
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Parametric estimation and testing. Maximum
likelihood. Information matrix. Confidence intervals. Probability plots (MINITAB).
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9-11
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Ch. 12.
Notes:
Survival regression etc. (27.02)
Regression with Life Data – MINITAB (27.02)
Case study in medical statistics (12.03)
Case study in reliability (12.03)
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Regression methods. Covariates. Weibull regression.
Cox-regression. Accellerated lifetime
testing.
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Example 12.2 page 532 and rest of Ch. 12
are not covered.
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12-13 and 17-18
(Note: No lectures in week 14)
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Ch.
7
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Point processes. Recurrent events.
Repairable systems. Poisson processes and renewal processes. Modelling and
statistical analysis of data. Likelihood-methods.
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The following is covered (not always in
detail): 7.1 only to 7.1.3; most of 7.2, but only to 7.2.6; 7.3 to 7.3.4; but in addition
7.3.8; most of 7.4. Pooled versions of Laplace
and Mil-Hdbk tests (as used by MINITAB).
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15
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Easter
vacation
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16
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Discussing
Exam June 2005
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19 (1st of May lecture moved to May 6 )
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Review:
Exam June 2008
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