A joint seminar between the Biostatistics group at The University of Manchester, and the Royal Statistical Society Manchester local group
Date: Wednesday 12th October 2011
Time: 2.00pm-5.00pm
Venue: Manchester Dental Education Centre (MANDEC), Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester, M15 6FH
Topic: "Statistical Issues in Pharmacoepidemiology".
Programme:
14.00 - 14.50: "Variable Selection Issues for Propensity Models"
Dr Mark Lunt, AR UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester
14.50 - 15.40: "Why a Bayesian approach to Pharmacovigilance is important, even if you don't have a prior of the effect of the drug"
Dr David Prieto-Merino, Medical Statistics Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
15.40 - 16.00: Tea/coffee break
16.00 - 16.50: "Immediate and delayed impact of drug use on risk of serious infection: illustration of a nested case-control analysis using a weighted cumulative dose model"
Dr Will Dixon, AR UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester
Further information can be found at:
http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/healthmethodology/research/biostatistics/events/
All are welcome to attend this free seminar. If you have any enquiries, please contact Wendy Lamb on [log in to unmask] or +44 (0)161 275 5764, or Richard Emsley on the details below.
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Dr Richard Emsley
Biostatistics, Health Sciences Research Group,
School of Community Based Medicine,
4.304 Jean McFarlane Building,
University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester. M13 9PL.
Tel: 0161 306 8002
Chairman, Royal Statistical Society Manchester Local Group
http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/staff/RichardEmsley
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