Survival Analysis in R (Udemy.com)
Use R to master survival analysis, duration analysis, event time analysis or reliability analysis.
Created by: R-Tutorials Training
Last updated April 2019
What you will learn
- The general concepts of survival analysis
- How to use R for survival analysis
- Identify the best packages for survival data
- The best data structure of a survival dataset and how to clean it
- Visualizing survival models with different charting tools: ggplot2, ggfortify, R Base
- Kaplan-Meier estimator
- Logrank test
- Cox proportional hazards model
- Parametric models
- Survival trees
- Missing data imputation
- Outlier detection
- Date and time data handling with lubridate
How it compares
Against the other 461 rated Udemy courses in Data Science on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 67% of them
- Reviews473#244 of 462 by number of reviews
- Length3.9 hoursshorter than 73% of them
- Last updatedApril 2019earlier than 93% of them
Course Description
Survival Analysis is a sub discipline of statistics. It actually has several names. In some fields it is called event-time analysis, reliability analysis or duration analysis. R is one of the main tools to perform this sort of analysis thanks to the survival package.
In this course you will learn how to use R to perform survival analysis. To check out the course content it is recommended to take a look at the course curriculum. There are also videos available for free preview.
The course structure is as follows:
We will start out with course orientation, background on which packages are primarily used for survival analysis and how to find them, the course datasets as well as general survival analysis concepts.
After that we will dive right in and create our first survival models. We will use the Kaplan Meier estimator as well as the logrank test as our first standard survival analysis tools.
When we talk about survival analysis there is one model type which is an absolute cornerstone of survival analysis: the Cox proportional hazards model. You will learn how to create such a model, how to add covariates and how to interpret the results.
You will also learn about survival trees. These rather new machine learning tools are more and more popular in survival analysis. In R you have several functions available to fit such a survival tree.
The last 2 sections of the course are designed to get your dataset ready for analysis. In many scenarios you will find that date-time data needs to be properly formatted to even work with it. Therefore, I added a dedicated section on date-time handling with a focus on the lubridate package. And you will also learn how to detect and replace missing values as well as outliers. These problematic pieces of data can totally destroy your analysis, therefore it is crucial to understand how to manage it.
Besides the videos, the code and the datasets, you also get access to a vivid discussion board dedicated to survival analysis.
By the way, this course is part of a whole data science course portfolio. Check out the R-Tutorials instructor page to see all the other available course.
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Instructor Details
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473 Reviews
R-Tutorials Training
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All of our courses contain exercises to give you the opportunity to try out the material on your own. You will also get downloadable script pdfs to recap the lessons.
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Reviews
By Marcio Vinicius Campos Borges on 5/27/2026
The course is outstanding. We are taught the essentials about survival analysis. And from my point of view, it's all we need about it.
By João Santos on 11/19/2021
Really liked the easy explanations, the selected concepts and the examples. This is a really good introductory course into to the topic.
By Liaoliao Li on 2/1/2021
Good and clear presentation. Very useful for beginner. Hopefully there are courses about the covariate search, model assumption test, etc.
By Craig Endert on 1/12/2021
Quite good. Covered a fair amount of theory and practice. The only thing I'd like to see more of is recommended resources to read more on the topic; having something to explain a little deeper than the functional level on this particular topic would be extremely helpful.
By Robert Florentino on 12/20/2020
Very good! As a suggestion, the course could present more sofisticated ideas such as system realiability of repairable equipments and parametric modelling using Weibull distribuition (and other distributions).
By Teodor Gottfried on 5/8/2020
Excellent course, provides basic knowledge for survival analysis(and methods), as well as a few additional, but useful skills for data manipulation in survival analysis. It is definitely recommended!
By Jennifer L on 12/31/2019
Great course, I'm following along with my own project. I've done a lot of survival analysis courses and I think this is the best one.
By Mys S on 8/31/2019
This course forms a good introduction to survival analysis with clear and easy to follow instructions. The practical examples adds value to really understand the results and how to interpret them.
By Daniel Lee on 7/24/2019
still have no received any responses to my questions. overall, one can use this course to get started in conducting survival analysis (or interpreting its results). it builds a decent foundation but analysts should supplement this course with additional reading from a textbook or university-level course to develop a more comprehensive understanding of survival analysis.
By A N on 5/3/2019
The instructor does a great job in presenting a good overview of the topic, I enjoyed following the lectures and I am sure I will soon have a chance to apply in practice what I learned here. Room for improvement: - low hanging fruits: a few more sentences on the confidence intervals, the interpretation of the model coefficients (beta lambda is scaled by a factor between 0 and 1 -> expected life increases), when to use parametric vs non-parametric models. - I think the section on survival trees would be impossible to follow without a basic understanding of ML. It shouldn't take a lot of extra material to give an intuition of the random forest algorithm Thanks again for the course!
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