Modern Advanced Methods in Biostatistics

April - September 2008


Modern Advanced Methods in Biostatistics is a set of events organised on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Milano Bicocca. The events, including two short courses and five seminars will be held between April and September 2008. In the courses and seminars international experts will discuss some advanced topics in Biostatistics. The events are intended for students and practitioners in the area of Biostatistics.


Course Directors:

Prof Giovanni Corrao (University of Milano Bicocca)

Prof Rino Bellocco (University of Milano Bicocca and Karolinska Institute, Stockolm, Sweden)

Dr Gianluca Baio (University of Milano Bicocca and University College London, UK)


Program

  • 17 April, 2008. Short course: Statistical issues in life course epidemiology

Bianca L De Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Handouts of lectures

Instructions for practical

Solutions for practical

References

  • 18 April, 2008. Seminar: Assessing the impact of exposure measurement bias in pooled analyses

Bianca L De Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

  • 18 April, 2008. Seminar: Methodological developments in comparative effectiveness research of therapeutics

Sebastian Schneeweiss, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA

  • 7 July, 2008. Seminar: Applied Longitudinal Analysis: Contrasting Marginal and Mixed Effects Models

Garrett Fitzmaurice, Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public Health, USA

  • 7 July, 2008. Seminar: An old story, a new ending LQAS (Lot Quality Assurance Sampling)

Marcello Pagano, Boston Department of Biostatistics - Harvard School of Public Health, USA

  • 7 July, 2008. Seminar: An overview of the meta-analytic approach to the validation of surrogate endpoints

Tomasz Burzykowski, Belgium Center for Statistics - Hasselt University, Belgium

  • 8-10 September, 2008. Short course: Introduction to Bayesian models with WinBUGS (in Italian)

Gianluca Baio, University of Milano Bicocca and University College London, UK

Marta Blangiardo, Imperial College London, UK

Simona Toti, University of Firenze

Gian Luca Di Tanna, University of Rome La Sapienza and Agenzia Sanitaria Regionale Emilia Romagna, Bologna


Relevant information

        Participation in the events is subject to registration. Seminars are free, but the two courses have a registration fee. Students and members of the Italian Society for Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology (SISMEC) can register at a special rate.

        A brochure of the events can be downloaded here

        Links for registration and information on the fees are available on the Department of Statistics - University of Milano Bicocca website

        For further information, contact Prof Rino Bellocco (rino.bellocco@unimib.it) or Dr Gianluca Baio (gianluca.baio@unimib.it)


[Last update 17 April, 2008]