Face-to-face training on Tuesdays and Fridays. The course is given in French, but students are allowed to use English.

Content covered:
Surveys and biographical data
Basic mathematical concepts and functions
Creation of censoring and duration variables; declaration of transition analysis and descriptive statistics
Non-parametric analysis of biographical data (life tables): Kaplan-Meier and actuarial estimation
Parametric analysis of biographical data: proportional-hazards models (exponential, Weibull and Gompertz models) and accelerated-output models (lognormal, log-logistic and gamma models).

Prerequisites:
Participants should be familiar with STATA software.