Dear All
Due to revised travel plans Prof Senn's lecture
will now be held at 12 midday this Friday and not at 14:00
as advertised.
Dear All
> 1. Why I hate minimisation
> Prof. Stephen Senn , University of Glasgow, UK
> January 26th (Friday), 12:00 Room A2002.
>
> Minimisation is a technique of sequentially marginally balancing
> clinical trials. It is not based on sound design theory, brings
> marginal advantages compared to randomisation as regards orthogonality
> and some disadvantages as regards blinding. Furthermore its very
> debatable merits have been over-exaggerated by its proponents who tend
> to use the fact that they have minimised as an excuse to ignore
> prognostic information. In this talk I shall argue that conditioning
> is the way to make inferences valid in the presence of covariate
> information and that minimisation has no useful role in designing
> clinical trials.
>
Tea at 11:45 pm in A2002
All Welcome !
Best
Gilbert
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Prof. Gilbert MacKenzie
Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of Limerick,
Limerick
Ireland
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Gilbert ~ http://www.staff.ul.ie/mackenzieg
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