The next meeting will be on 9th February 2005 at MMU, 4.30 for 5.00pm, in Room E32
John Dalton Building, opposite the BBC. Tea and coffee from 4.30pm.
Title: Some Statistical Problems in Organ Donation and Transplantation
Speaker: DAVE COLLETT (UK Transplant, Bristol)
Synopsis: There are many important problems stemming from organ donation and
transplantation where statistical input is needed for their solution. These include audits
to identify the potential for organ donation in the UK, studies designed to improve the
efficiency and equity of organ allocation procedures, monitoring the performance of
individual transplant units to identify any whose results become out of line, and analyses
of outcomes following organ transplantation. In this talk, some specific topics in these
areas will be described and illustrated, with reference to the application of multilevel
logistic modelling, frailty models for survival analysis, risk adjusted cusum analyses, and
models that incorporate time dependent variables.
For fuller details including directions, please see our web site at
www.rss-manchester.org.
Stephan Rudolfer
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Dr Stephan M. Rudolfer
Honorary Research Fellow in Mathematical Statistics
Chairman, Manchester Group, Royal Statistical Society
Mathematics Department Tel: +44 161 275 5054
The University of Manchester Fax: +44 161 275 5819
MANCHESTER M13 9PL Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.maths.man.ac.uk/DeptWeb/Homepages/smr/
