This course introduces survival models and discusses their estimation and their application to mortality. Topics covered will include: an introduction to the life table; survival models; estimation procedures for lifetime distributions; statistical models of transfers between multiple states; maximum likelihood estimation of transition intensities for such models; binomial model of mortality including estimation and comparison with multiple state models; exposed to risk and methods for smoothing crude mortality rate data.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
To achieve an understanding of and facility in:
- Explain the concept of survival models.
- Describe estimation procedures for lifetime distributions.
- Describe statistical models of transfer between multiple states, including processes with single or multiple decrements, and derive relationships between probabilities of transfer and transition intensities.
- Derive maximum likelihood estimators for the transition intensities in models of transfers between states with piecewise constant transition intensities.
- Describe how to estimate transition intensities depending on age, exactly or using the census approximation.
- Describe how to test crude estimates for consistency with a standard table or a set of graduated estimates, and describe the process of graduation.
Other Information
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Indicative Assessment
- Mid Semester Exam 20%
- Final Examination 80%
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Workload
10 hours per week
Requisite and Incompatibility
Fees
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- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
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| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1994-2003 | $2784 | |
| 2014 | $3246 | |
| 2013 | $3246 | |
| 2012 | $3090 | |
| 2011 | $3090 | |
| 2010 | $3090 | |
| 2009 | $3090 | |
| 2008 | $3090 | |
| 2007 | $3090 | |
| 2006 | $3090 | |
| 2005 | $3084 | |
| 2004 | $3084 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 1994-2003 | $2784 |
| 2014 | $3762 |
| 2013 | $3756 |
| 2012 | $3582 |
| 2011 | $3582 |
| 2010 | $3576 |
| 2009 | $3264 |
| 2008 | $3264 |
| 2007 | $3264 |
| 2006 | $3132 |
| 2005 | $3084 |
| 2004 | $3084 |
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First Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4821 | 17 Feb 2014 | 07 Mar 2014 | 31 Mar 2014 | 30 May 2014 | In Person | N/A |
