International Biometric Society - First Channel Network Conference
Tuesday 8 - Friday 11 May, 207
Rolduc Conference Centre, Kerkrade, The Netherlands
Call for Contributed Papers
The IBS Channel Network was formed in late 2005 to provide links between the
Belgian, British and Irish, French and Netherlands Regions of the IBS, with
a primary activity of holding a joint conference every two years. This is
the first official Channel Network Conference following a successful joint
conference at the University of Leicester in April 2005.
Invited Programme:
Opening Keynote - "Groups, graphs, networks: New strategies to handle
genomic data"
Ulrich Mansmann (University of Munich, Germnay)
Invited session 1: High-Dimensional Data
"Megavariate Analysis-of-Variance"
Age Smilde (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Betyond Lasso"
Cajo ter Braak (Wageningen UR, The Netherlands)
Invited session 2: Methods in epidemiology
"Statistical methods for the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS"
Daniel Commenges (INSERM, France)
"Causal inferencein observational studies"
Miguel Hernan (Harvard School of Public Health, USA)
Invited session 3: Adaptive design in clinical trials
"Issues in combining Phase II and Phase III clinical trials"
Chris Jennison (University of Bath)
"Implementation of a Phase I Adaptive Clinical Trial: A case study using
Bayesian methods"
Fabian Tibaldi (Eli Lilly and Company, Belgium)
Closing Keynote - "Fast and Sensitive Trials - New Paradigms in Clinical
Research
Marc Buyse (IDDI, Belgium)
Contributed Programme:
Contributions for both oral and post presentations are welcomed on any
biometrical topic. Abstracts should be submitted by January 30th written in
English and not exceeding one page of A4 in length (minimum font size 12pt).
Each abstract should contain the title, list of authors and author
affiliations, and email contact for the presenting author.
Abstracts can be submitted either via the conference web-site at:
www.bms-aned.nl/Rolduc2007
Or by email to the chair of the Local Organising Committee, Hein Putter, at:
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Registration:
Registration costs for IBS members are 225 Euros for registrations prior to
March 15th and 275 Euros therafter.
Registration costs for non-members are 275 Euros for registrations prior to
March 15th and 325 Euros thereafter.
Registration is possible via the conference web-site, together with more
details of the conference.
Andrew Mead, M.Sc., CStat
International Biometric Society, Vice President
International Biometric Society, British and Irish Region Secretary
International Biometric Society, Co-Chair, Strategic Plan Committee
International Biometric Society, Channel Network Coordinator
International Biometric Society, Local Organising Committee for IBC Dublin
2008
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Biometry - the active pursuit of biological knowledge by quantitative
methods (Fisher, 1948)
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University of Warwick
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