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INVITATION
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MASTER CLASS
COST EFFICIENT AND OPTIMAL DESIGNS FOR SOCIAL AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
Date
29 April, 2011, 9.30 a.m. - 16.30 p.m.
Location
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
The Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
This Master Class discusses the merits of optimal design methods and presents useful results for an audience of Master and PhD students, post-docs and other interested social and biomedical researchers.
A good design in social and biomedical research provides accurate inferences at minimal costs and sample size. Optimal design theory can help researchers choose an efficient and powerful design. This Master Class discusses the merits of optimal design methods and presents useful results for an audience of Master and PhD students, post-docs and other interested social and biomedical researchers. Special attention is given to design problems arising from longitudinal and repeated measurement settings and multicentre and cluster randomized trials. Computer programs will also be presented.
The lectures will be given by optimal design experts. They will be presented in an expository manner, enabling participants with limited mathematical training to learn more about optimal design methods and applications.
Presenters: Peter Goos (Antwerp University), Gerard van Breukelen and Frans Tan (Maastricht University), Donna Spiegelman and Xavier Basagaņa (Harvard University) and Weng Kee Wong (UCLA).
Organizers:
Martijn Berger, Frans Tan and Gerard van Breukelen (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) and Mirjam Moerbeek (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Location: Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam
Course fee: 50 euro (including lunch, coffee, tea)
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Programme
9:30 a.m.
Registration and welcome
10:00 a.m.
Introduction to optimal design methods
(Prof. Peter Goos, Antwerp University)
11:30 a.m.
Cluster and multicentre designs
(Dr Gerard van Breukelen, Maastricht University)
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
13:30 p.m.
Repeated measurement designs
(Dr Frans Tan, Maastricht University)
14:30 p.m.
Power computations for longitudinal designs
(Dr Xavier Basagaņa/Prof. Donna Spiegelman (Environmental epidemiology, Barcelona and Harvard University)
15:30 p.m.
Web based optimal design programs
(Prof. Weng Kee Wong, UCLA)
More information:
Martijn P.F. Berger/ professor
Department Methodology and Statistics
Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 43 3882258/3882395
Fax: +31 43 3618388
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