ViCBiostat Summer School 2019

18 Feb 2019 09:00am to 22 Feb 2019 05:00pm

ViCBiostat Summer School 2019

Workshop

Event Location

Ella Latham Theatre, Royal Children's Hospital

50 Flemington Road

Parkville VIC 3052

Australia

Speakers

Prof Katherine Lee

Katherine (Kate) is a professor of biostatistics at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and is the Associate Director: Biostatistics of the Melbourne Children’s Trials Centre. She also holds an honorary...

Prof Julie Simpson

Julie is Head of the Biostatistics Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne and Director of the Methods and Implementation Support for Clinical...

Prof Margarita Moreno-Betancur

Margarita is co-lead of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) at the MCRI and the University of Melbourne. Since completing her PhD in Biostatistics at Université Paris-Sud in 2014...

Prof Rory Wolfe

Rory is a biostatistician at Monash University and contributes to a wide range of epidemiological and clinical research studies. He obtained his PhD in statistics from Southampton University (UK), subsequently...

Dr Cattram Nguyen

Cattram completed a PhD in biostatistics at the University of Melbourne in 2014. Her statistical areas of interest include the design and analysis of clinical trials and methods for missing...

STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH

The ViCBiostat Summer School is back in 2019, this time in partnership with the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA). Each program is designed to provide an intensive introduction to a range of intermediate to advanced statistical methods that are important in modern health research. The courses will include extensive discussion of practical examples and hands-on training in relevant statistical software using the Stata and R packages.

Who should attend?

Prerequisite knowledge for these workshops is a sound understanding of epidemiological and statistical concepts and knowledge of either Stata or R.

18 Feb - An Introduction to multiple imputation for missing data

Course outline

19 Feb - Advanced multiple imputation: Longitudinal data and sensitivity analyses

Course outline

20 Feb - Risk Prediction Modelling

Course outline

21 & 22 Feb in partnership with ACTA - Adaptive designs and multiple testing procedures for clinical trials

PRESENTERS: Prof James Wason, Dr David Robertson, Dr Adrian Mander, Dr Michael Grayling.
Course outline

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

R or Stata V14 or above required for all sessions. Participants are expected to have copies of required software applicable for each day pre-installed on laptops and ready to use.

COURSE FEES AND REGISTRATION

Click here to see course fees.