We have few places left of this workshop in the Manchester venue (10th June). If you/colleagues/students are interested please register before Tuesday morning. Many thanks.
This workshop is hosted as part of the MRC-funded research grant JoineR, collaboratively awarded to Liverpool, Lancaster and Newcastle, aiming to bring modern methods of statistical analysis into mainstream medical research.
In many clinical trials, with the increased use of automatic data capture systems including remote monitoring, it is now common for longitudinal measurement data to be available alongside time to event data. A well-known example is in HIV research in which a biomarker such as CD4 count is determined intermittently and its relationship with time to AIDS onset is of interest. Another common situation is where some patients withdraw from the trial before completing the measurement schedule but the dropout may be informative. In such cases, the longitudinal profiles alone may not reflect a genuine change over time, it may be an artefact caused by selective dropout. A major difficulty is how best to merge information from the two sources, especially as the longitudinal measurement data are usually irregularly and imperfectly observed. The JoineR project aims to develop new statistical methodologies for the analysis of these longitudinal data-structures, implement corresponding user-friendly software in R language and disseminate the results to the medical research community.
Speakers: Peter Diggle (Lancaster) / Robin Henderson (Newcastle)
Dates and venues:
15th May 2009 (MRC, London)
5th June 2009 (Foresight Centre, Liverpool)
10th June 2009 (Conference Centre, Manchester)
12th June 2009 (MRC, London)
To register please go to JoineR workshops at https://www.liv.ac.uk/medstats/courses.htm. There is no charge for the Registration/ Expository lecture and also open to clinical researchers and clinical trialists. A training workshop for software will follow after the seminar. You will extend your data analysis and interpretation skills to a variety of applications. You will learn how to use specialised software for joint modelling.
Contacts:
Dr. Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona ([log in to unmask]) for queries related to the content of the course
Mrs. Kath Forrest ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) for queries related to reservation and venue
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