Apologies for cross posting.
The University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine has a places remaining on the following short courses in June:
Advanced Rates & Survival Analysis
6-7th June 2016
Course outline: Comparison of Poisson, Cox and parametric survival models; parametric regression using the Weibull and other distributions; flexible parametric survival models and their use in prognostic modelling; relative survival models; analysis of competing risks data using cumulative incidence function and an adapted version of the Cox regression model.
Introduction to R
17th June 2016
Course outline: Access the R website, download and install R; Implement the basic operations of R; Read in data from multiple sources; Understand, manipulate and explore different types of R objects such as vectors, matrices and data frames; Find help about a given command and explore similar commands; Use R script files to organise R commands; Display summary statistics and basic plots; Download, install and find documentation for additional R libraries.
Design and Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials
20-24th June 2016
Course outline: The need for clinical trials; planning issues; pragmatic and explanatory trials; hypothesis testing; clinical and statistical significance; sample size; randomisation; cluster trials; intention to treat analysis; alternative trial designs; multiple outcomes; adjustment for covariates; subgroup analysis; CONSORT guidelines on trial reporting; qualitative methods in clinical trials; feasibility studies, health economics in the context of clinical trials; ethical issues in trials.
Please visit our website http://www.bris.ac.uk/social-community-medicine/shortcourse for further details and booking information.
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