Survival Analysis
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Survival Analysis
Introduction
Abbreviated Outline
Descriptive overview of survival analysis
Terminology and notation
Goals of survival analysis
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Survival analysis is a collection of statistical procedures for data analysis for which the outcome variable of interest is time until an event occurs.
The event of interest is typically referred to as a failure.
The time to the event is referred to as survival time (or failure time in reliability analysis)
When more than one event is considered, the statistical problem is characterized as a competing risk problem.
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Examples
Engineering: the lifetime of a light bulb; the time from start to burned out
Social science: the survival time of a marriage ; the time from start to the end of marriage due to annulment, divorce or death
Public health: the time to local or regional recurrence since the
first radiation course for the breast cancer patient the time to death due to AIDS or ALDS-related
complications after a confirmed diagnosis of HIV
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3 elements to determine the survival time
1. Time origin or starting point
2. Ending event of interest
3. Measurement scale
It is usually in time such as days or months; but can be otherwise such as in dollars: the cost from admission to discharge.
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Survival Distributions
Y: the actual survival time of an individual; Y > 0
4 functions characterize the distributions of Y: the cumulative distribution function, the survival function, the hazard function, and the mean residual life function
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CDF of Y
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Survival Function of Y
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About Survival Function
The survival function S is monotone nonincreasing over its support [0,infinity).
S(0)=1 and S(infinity)=0.
A steep curve represents shorter survival, while a gradual curve represents longer survival.
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Hazard Function of Y
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About Hazard Function
The hazard function, h(y), gives the instantaneous rate at time y for experiencing the event of interest, given that the event has not occurred prior to time y.
At time y, h(y) > 0 and has no upper bound.
An analogy: the concept of velocity What does it mean that your car’s
speedometer shows 70 mph? Would you really travel exactly 70 miles in the next hour?
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About Hazard Function
Increasing hazard rates may arise when there is natural aging or wear.
Decreasing hazard rates are less common but find occasional use when there is an early likelihood of failure (such as after surgery).
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The Mean Residual Life Function
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Goals of Survival Analysis To estimate and interpret survival and/or
hazard functions from survival data. To compare survival and /or hazard
functions. The hazard function is usually more
informative about the underlying mechanism of failure than the survival function.
To assess the relationship of explanatory variables to survival time.
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