The British and Irish Region of the Biometric Society invites you to
a meeting on measurement error bias: curent issues and future
directions.
When: Wednesday 29th April 2010, 13.00-17.00 (lunch from 12.00)
with optional morning tutorial.
Where: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/location/
Programme:
09.00 Registration (Whole Day)
09.30*12.00 Optional tutorial: Covariate measurement error:
types of covariate error, their e*ects, and correc-
tion methods * led by Chris Frost and Bianca De Stavola, with
practical work in Stata
12.00*13.00 Lunch and Registration (Afternoon only)
13.00*14.00 David Cox (Nu*eld College, Oxford) Concepts
14.00*15.00 Laurence Freedman (Sheba Medical Center, Israel)
Statistical problems arising from dietary mea-
surement error and their impact on nutritional epidemiology
15.00*15.30 Tea
15.30*16.15 Ruth Keogh (MRC Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology
in Cancer Prevention and Survival and
MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge) Measurement
error in nutritional epidemiology: correlated
errors and an illustration in EPIC-Norfolk
16.15*17.00 Jouni Kuha (London School of Economics and
Political Sciences, London) Sample group means in
multilevel models
17.00 Close
Cost:
BIR Members: whole day (including morning co*ee and lunch): £24; lunch
and afternoon sessions: £12; afternoon
sessions only: free.
Non-members: whole day (including morning co*ee and lunch): £124; lunch
and afternoon sessions: £62; afternoon
sessions only: £50.
Student members: whole day: (including morning co*ee and lunch): £12;
lunch and afternoon sessions: £8; afternoon
sessions only: free.
Registration: Go to
http://www.britishandirish.tibs.org/live/
*** Why not join the International Biometric Society for £40 (students:
free) and take advantage of the members* rate?
To join, go to http://www.britishandirish.tibs.org/live/
James Carpenter
Secretary, British and Irish Region
International Biometric Society
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