STATISTICALPS 2018: Summer course on medical statistics in the Alps

PROGRAM
9 SEPTEMBER 2018
19.30 Registration20.00 Welcome Dinner
1S T DAY – 10 SEPTEMBER 2018
9.00:13.00 - Measures of disease occurrence and risk: revision.- Risk estimates from different sampling strategies from the same underlying cohort: comparison and interpretation.- Regression models: Logistic, Poisson, Cox
14.30:16.00 - Adjustment for confounding: standardisation of rates, adjustment/stratification, matched designs
16.30:18.30 - Weighted likelihood: incomplete/2-stage case-control data; optimal 2-stage designs.
- Secondary analysis of case-control data.
2ND DAY – 11 SEPTEMBER 2018
9.00:13.00 - Nested case-control data: reusing; breaking the matching; estimating absolute risk.- Case-cohort designs.- Tutorial: implementation in standard software.
14.30:16.00 - Extreme designs (counter-matching, extreme outcome).
16.30:18.30 - RO-logit models: confounder adjustment; applications; residual diagnostics; handling ties.
3RD DAY – 12 SEPTEMBER 2018
8.30:12.30 - Estimation of relative risk, excess relative risk, NNT, and other risk measures from standard case-control data; more general risk models.- Extensions to sampling designs: clustered data, longitudinal data, quasi-cohort, exposure enriched sampling, multiple outcomes.
4TH DAY – 13 SEPTEMBER 2018
9.00:12.30 Tutorial:
- Development of study plan or analysis plan with peer feedback.
14.00:16.00 - Presentations and final discussion.
19.30 Course closure – Social Dinner

14 SEPTEMBER 2018
8.30 Departure from Hotel