TheInternationalBiometricSociety

British&IrishRegion

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 (lunch available from 12.30pm)

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

Here are the Presentations from the meeting

• 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

  TEA/COFFEE BREAK

• 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 (€50) for IBS or RSS members, £50 (€62.5) for non-members Meeting + lunch : £50 (€62.5) for IBS or RSS members, £ 60 (€75) for non-members

  To register

  Send the registration form (downloadable here) 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.

  Directions

  For instructions on getting to Errol Street see: http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=1759

  CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION: TUESDAY 30th SEPTEMBER

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