Lecture 21: Survival analysis

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Outline

  • Motivation
  • Right-censored data.
  • When to use survival analysis
  • Apply survival analysis in Python using the lifelines package
  • Interpret a survival curve, such as the Kaplan-Meier curve.
  • Interpret the coefficients of a fitted Cox proportional hazards model.
  • Make predictions for existing individuals and interpret these predictions.