Joint Meeting British and Irish Region-International Biometric Society
& Royal Statistical Society Medical Section
ISSUES & MODELS for COMPETING RISKS STUDIES
Tuesday 7 October 2008, 1.30-5pm
Royal Statistical Society
12 Errol Street, EC1Y 8LX London
This meeting will focus on the issues that arise in the design and
analysis
of time-to-event studies when there are competing outcomes.
Five speakers will review the theoretical and practical issues and
illustrate
alternative approaches with applications taken from clinical trials
and
observational studies.
Programme:
1.30-2.20pm, Per Kragh Andersen (Department of Biostatistics,
University of Copenhagen)
Overview of issues arising in the presence of competing events
2.20-3.00pm, Hein Putter (Department of Medical Statistics, Leiden
University Medical Centre)
Competing risks, time-dependent effects, and vertical modeling
3.20-4.00pm, Abdel Babiker (HIV and Infectious Group, MRC Clinical
Trials Unit, London)
An application of Cox proportional hazards models for competing risks
to fertility and contraception studies
4.00-4.40pm, Ronald Geskus (Department of Clinical Epidemiology,
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam)
The Fine & Gray model for competing risks with left truncated data or
time-dependent covariates
4.40-5.20pm, Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona (Centre for Medical Statistics
and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool)
Competing risks in anti-epileptic drug trials
Fees:
Meeting: £40 (euro 50) for IBS or RSS members, £50 (euro 62.5) for
non-members
Meeting + lunch: £50 (euro 62.5) for IBS or RSS members, £60 (euro
75)
for non-members
To register:
Send the registration form (downloadable from
http://www.britishandirish.tibs.org/live/)
plus cheque payable to `Biometrics Society' to:
Bianca L. De Stavola,
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health,
London School of Hygiene \& Tropical Medicine,
Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom.
CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION: TUESDAY 30th SEPTEMBER
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