The British and Irish Region of the Biometric Society invites you to
a meeting on
"Measurement error bias: current issues and future directions"
(with optional morning tutorial)
When: Wednesday 28th April 2010, 13.00-17.00 (lunch from 12.00)
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 effects, and correction methods led by Chris
Frost, with practical work in Stata
12.00-13.00 Lunch and Registration (Afternoon only)
13.00-14.00 David Cox (Nuffield College, Oxford) Concepts
14.00-15.00 Laurence Freedman (Sheba Medical Center, Israel)
Statistical problems arising from dietary measurement 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 coffee and lunch): £24; lunch
and afternoon sessions: £12; afternoon sessions only: free.
Non-members: whole day (including morning coffee and lunch): £124;
lunch and afternoon sessions: £62; afternoon sessions only: £50.
Student members: whole day: (including morning coffee 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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