Stat 6350: Analysis of Lifetime Data

Fall 2009

Heroy Science Hall, Room 127, Tuesday & Thursday 2:00p.m. - 3:20p.m.

Instructor: Dr. H. K. Tony Ng 
Office: 106 Heroy Science Hall 
Phone: (214) 768-2465
e-mail: ngh@mail.smu.edu
webpage: http://faculty.smu.edu/ngh

Office Hours:
Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  
Wednesday 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.   
 (or by appointment)

Course Outline

Some Useful Links

Presentation Schedule

Class Notes

Reliability Concepts and Survival Data

Review of Statistical Theory

Models, Censoring and Likelihood for Lifetime Data

Nonparametric Estimation (Excel file for the example in worksheet)

Location-scale based Parametric Distribution

Other Parametric Distribution

Probability Plotting

Parametric Likelihood Fitting Concepts: Exponential Distribution

Maximum Likelihood for Log-Location-Scale Distributions

Failure-time Regression Analysis

Homework Assignments

Assignment 1:  
Textbook Exercises - 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 2.11, 2.16 
Due: 22nd September 2009 (Tuesday), 5:00 p.m. 

Assignment 2:  
Assignment 2 
Due: 8th October 2009 (Thursday), 5:00 p.m. 

Assignment 3:  
Textbook Exercises - 5.9, 5.12, 6.5, 6.8, 6.11 (Compare to the nonparametric estimate obtained from Fig. 6.5), 7.6, 7.7 
Due: 5th November 2009 (Thursday), 5:00pm 

Past Exam Paper

Exam 2007