International Biometric Society
British & Irish Region
MEASUREMENT ERROR BIAS:
ISSUES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Wednesday 28 April 2010, 13.00-17.00 (lunch from 12.00)
with Optional Morning Tutorial
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
This meeting will focus on the issues that arise in the presence of measurement error and on the alternative approaches available. Four speakers will review recent theoretical developments, and illustrate the concepts with real life examples.
Programme
09.00 Registration
09.30-12.00 Optional tutorial: Covariate measurement error: types of covariate error, their effects, and correction methods |led by Chris Frost and Bianca De Stavola, with practical work in Stata
12.00-13.00 Lunch
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.
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/
Registration
Download the registration form (http://www.britishandirish.tibs.org/live/meetings/meet20100428.htm) and send, with cheque payable to "Biometric Society", to: Bianca De Stavola, Department Epidemiology and Population Health, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.
Directions
For instructions on getting to LSHTM see: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/location/
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