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Sunday, 29 august 2010

Monday, 30 August 2010

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Thursday, 2 September 2010

08:30

Registration

Registration

Registration

Registration

Registration

09:00

Welcome to ISCB31

Mini-symposium

09:30

Short courses

Vaccine Session

Invited Session

J1I1

Invited Session

J1I2

Invited Session

J2I1

Invited Session

J2I2

Invited Session

J3I1

Invited Session

J3I2

10:30

Refreshments

11:00

Refreshments

Refreshments

Refreshments

Refreshments

Mini-symposium

11:30

Short courses

Vaccine Session

Contributed Sessions:

J1S1, J1S2, J1S3, J1S4, J1S5

Contributed Sessions:

J2S1, J2S2, J2S3, J2S4, J2S5

Keynote Lecture

12:30

Annual General Meeting

Lunch

13:00

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch


14:00

Short courses

Vaccine Session

Contributed Sessions:

J1S6, J1S7, J1S8, J1S9, J1S10

Conference excursions

Contributed Sessions:

J3S1, J3S2, J3S3, J3S4, J3S5

15:30

Refreshments

Refreshments

Refreshments

16:00

Short courses

Vaccine Session

Contributed Sessions:

J1S11, J1S12, J1S13, J1S14, J1S15

Contributed Sessions:

J3S6, J3S7, J3S8, J3S9, J3S10

17:30


18:00

19:00

Welcome Reception at School of Medicine

Conference Dinner and Awards



Sunday, 29 August


Course 1

Course 2

Course 3

Course 4

Special Day Vaccines

9:30-13:00

Bayesian Statistics for Clinical Trials and Drug Regulation

Inference and Prediction using Longitudinal Data: Analysis of Time-dependent Data for Inference and Prediction

Analysis of High-throughput SNP Association Studies

Causal Inference

Vaccine Efficacy, Vaccine Safety and the Swine Flu Pandemic.

14:00-17:30


Monday, 30 August

9:00-9:20

Welcome and Opening Of the Conference (R: Philippe Lamour)

9:30-11:00

J1I1: Mixed models (R: Philippe Lamour)

J1I2: Use of genetic data (R: 206)

11:30-13:00

J1S1: Prediction (R 206)

J1S2: Genetic epidemiology (R 101)

J1S3: Bioinformatics (R 104)

J1S4: Incomplete data (R 208)

J1S5: Clinical trials (R Philippe Lamour)

14:00-15:30

J1S6: Prediction (R 206)

J1S7: Joint modeling of longitudinal outcome and times-to event (R208)

J1S8: Genetic epidemiology (R 101)

J1S9: Pharmaco-epidemiology (R 104)

J1S10: Clinical trials (R Philippe Lamour)

16:00-18:00

J1S11: Modeling and simulation in drug development (R 101)

J1S12: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology (R 104)

J1S13: Survival and multistate models (R Philippe Lamour)

J1S14: Latent variable models (R 208)

J1S15: Causal inference (R 206)

Tuesday, 31 August

9:30-11:00

J2I1: Competing risks and multi-state models
(R 206)

J2I2: Developments of risk prediction models
(R : Philippe Lamour)

11:30-13:00

J2S1: Clinical trials (R Philippe Lamour)

J2S2: Causal Inference (R 101)

J2S3: Incomplete data (R 208)

J2S4: Prediction (R 206)

J2S5: Bioinformatics (R 104)

Wednesday, 1 September

9:30-11:00

J3I1:New statistical methods for pharmaco-epidemiology
(R Philippe Lamour)

J3I2: New developments in Bayesian adaptive trials (R 206)

11:00-11:30


11:30-12:30

Keynote lecture: Pr Norman Breslow

Clinical trials as a resource for epidemiology: Lessons from the National Wilms Tumor Study (R Philippe Lamour)

12:30-14:00

Annual General Meeting (R Philippe Lamour)

14:00-15:30

J3S1: Model selection (R 101)

J3S2: Prediction (R 206)

J3S3: Incomplete data/ Measurement error (R 208)

J3S4: Dynamic treatment regimens/ Clinical trials (R Philippe Lamour)

J3S5: Causal inference (R 104)

16:00-18:00

J3S6: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology/ Spatial data analysis (R 208)

J3S7: Statistical modeling approaches involving smoothing (R 101)

J3S8: Meta-analyses (R 104)

J3S9: Dynamic treatment regimens/ Clinical trials (R Philippe Lamour)

J3S10: Joint modeling of longitudinal outcome and times-to event (R 206)

Thursday, 2 September

9:00-11:00

J4I1:Mini-symposium: New approaches to analyse end-stage renal disease (ESRD) data.


11:30:12:30

J4I2:Mini-symposium: New approaches to analyse end-stage renal disease (ESRD) data.


Invited sessions


Speaker


PIS

Norman Breslow

Clinical trials as a resource for epidemiology : Lessons from the National Wilms Tumor Study (NWTS)

.

J1I1: Mixed Models (R : Philippe Lamour)

Dipak K Dey

Robust Bayesian nonlinear mixed-effects models

Dimitris Rizolpoulos

Fitting high-dimensional joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data using Laplace approximations

Marc Lavielle

The SAEM algorithm: a powerful stochastic algorithm for population pharmacology modeling

.

J1I2: Use of genetic data (R 206)

Martin Posch

A Graphical Approach to Multiple Testing Procedures with Extensions to Adaptive Designs

Aldo Solari

The sequential rejection principle of familywise error control

Jim Berger

Bayesian adjustment for multiplicity

.

J2I1: Competing risks and multi-state models (R Philippe Lamour)

Per Kragh Andersen

Interpretability and importance of functionals in competing risks and multi-state models

Pierre Joly

Multi-state models in Epidemiology for interval-censored data

Michael Koller

Competing Risks And The Clinical Community: Irrelevance Or Ignorance ?

.

J2I2:Developments of risk prediction models (R Philippe Lamour)

Tianxi Cai

Risk prediction with complex studies.

Martin Schumacher

How Good Are Popular Risk Prediction Models?

Ewout Steyerberg

Prognostic Modeling And External Knowledge

.

J3I1: New statistical methods for pharmaco-epidemiology (R 206)

Michal Abrahamowicz

Comparison Of Alternative Models For Linking Drug Exposure With Adverse Effects

Paddy Farrington

Self-controlled case series methods: recent developments and applications

Alan Brookhart

Methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology

.

J3I2: New developments in Bayesian adaptive trials (R 206)

Nigel Stallard

Optimal sample sizes for phase IIb clinical trials

Andrew Grieve

Dose Response in Bayesian Adaptive Designs : Model Based or Semi-Parametric

Yisheng Li

Targeting the PI3K pathway in women's cancers: some practical examples of (the design of) early phase Bayesian adaptive trials

Sylvie chevret

Bayesian Adaptive Trials: A Statistician Dream ?


Special day vaccines

Time

Speaker

Title

9:30 - 10:15

Jos Nauta

Welcome and a short history and the ISCB Sub-Committee Vaccines

10:15 - 11:15

Elizabeth Halloran

Estimating Indirect Effects of Vaccination in Small Transmission Units: The Mini-Community Design

11:15 - 11:45

Refreshments

11:45 - 12:45

Dr Jukka Jokinen

Analysis of recurrent events: Evaluating treatment effect in clinical trials

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30

Dr Yin Bun Cheung

Estimation of vaccine-attributable reduction

14:30 - 15:30

Dr Mey Wang

Statistical Challenges in the Evaluation of Vaccine Safety

15:30 - 16:00

Refreshments

16:00 - 17:00

Dr Mounia Hocine

Sequential Case Series Analysis for Pharmacovigilance

17:00 - 17:30

Forum discussion


Mini-symposium

Time

Speaker

Title

9:00 - 9:45

Paul Landais

An introduction to the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, a model of chronic disease, with a focus on the demand and offer of care for end-stage renal disease and the new challenges for a better aid to public health decision making.

9:45 - 10:30

Lea Fortunato

Geographical epidemiology for chronic diseases: An overview of Bayesian statistical methods

10:30 - 11:00

Refreshments

11:00 - 11:45

Caroline Elie

Modelling excess mortality (additive model) and relative mortality (multiplicative model) in the context of chronic renal failure.

11:45 - 12:30

Yohann Foucher

Modelling the multi-state evolution of kidney transplant recipients for improving the prognostic decision


Contributed Sessions

Speaker


Title

Session

Sunday, 29




Cheung

Yin Bun

Estimation of vaccine-attributable reduction

Special day vaccines on Sunday

Monday, 30




Mazroui

Yassin

Joint frailty model for recurrent and terminal events

J1S1

Spitoni

Cristian

Inference for transition probabilities for semi-markov multi state models

J1S1

Gerds

Thomas

Quantifying the uncertainty of individual risk predictions

J1S1

Salim

Agus

Assessing hetereogeneity of risk factors for type 2 diabetes using finite-mixture regression

J1S1

Bouwmeester

Walter

Internal validation of prediction models based on multicenter data: a comparison of sampling schemes

J1S1

Kerman

Jouni

Modeling proportions and rates using neutral priors

J1S10

Leroy

Fanny

Extensions of the logrank test for interval censored data

J1S10

Kuribayashi

Kazuhiko

Design and analysis of clinical trial simulations

J1S10

Whitehead

John

Using historical lesion data to design a new phase II trial in stroke

J1S10

Lingsma

Hester

Covariate adjustement and ordinal outcome analysis increase power in traumatic brain injury trials

J1S10

Senn

Stephen

Prior distributions for nuisance parameters

J1S11

Nguyen

Thu Thuy

Design evaluation and optimisation in crossover bioequivalence trials analyzed with nonlinear mixed effects models

J1S11

Mentré

France

Model evaluation in nonlinear mixed effect models with illustration in pharmacokinetics

J1S11

Jaki

Thomas

A flexible non-compartmental approach to estimation of PK parameters

J1S11

Klingenberg

Bernhard

Inference for marginal proportions in multivariate binary data

J1S11

Doussau

Adelaide

Dose finding methods in paediatric trials: methods comparison in a temporal framework

J1S11

Skaltsa

Konstantina

Diagnostic threshold estimation in a multistate setting

J1S12

Regnault

Antoine

Methodological challenges for the evaluation of patient-reported screening tools: example of a neuropathic pain screening tool

J1S12

Subtil

Fabien

A semi-parametric Bayesian method to estimate the optimal threshold of a biomarker and its credible interval

J1S12

van Geloven

Nan

How to deal with single or double partial verification when comparing two index tests to a reference test?

J1S12

Walter

Stephen

Effect of correlated errors between a diagnostic test and its reference standard

J1S12

Presanis

Anne

Dynamic transmission models of HIV: a Bayesian evidence synthesis

J1S12

Van Houwelingen

Hans

Dynamic prediction of cure

J1S13

Wolkewitz

Martin

Analysing hospital cohorts with follow-up beyond discharge: importance of time-dynamic models to assess the risk of dying

J1S13

Sanchez-Niubo

Albert

Heroine use incidence in Spain: a multi-state model for estimation.

J1S13

Mahboubi

Amel

Estimating cost-effectiveness of health interventions with time-varying effects

J1S13

Allignol

Arthur

Understanding competing risks: a simulation point of view

J1S13

Nicolaie

Student Awards winner

Alina

Vertical modeling: analysis of competing risks data with missing causes of failure

J1S13

Ferrao

Maria Eugenia

Adjusting for differential misclassification in multilevel models

J1S14

Farrington

Paddy

Shared frailty models for multivariate serological survey data: interpretation, identifiability and model choice

J1S14

Proust-Lima

Cecile

Mixed models for longitudinal cognitive aging study

J1S14

Almansa

Josue

IRT models with censored binary indicators. Application on European lifetime mental health comorbidity assessment.

J1S14

Christensen

Karl

Validation of scales using graphical models with latent variables

J1S14

Hardouin

Jean-Benoit

Comparison of classical test and item response theories in health

J1S14

Fischer

Krista

Estimating causal contrasts in RCTs: a comparison of principal stratification and structural mean models

J1S15

Harbord

Roger

Mendelian randomization: how biased is a simple odds ratio estimator?

J1S15

le Cessie

Saskia

The problem of detecting intermediate and direct effects

J1S15

van der Wal

Willem

Iterative inverse probability weighting: more stable and more efficient than standard inverse probability weighting

J1S15

Laubender

Ruediger P.

Counterfactual responder analysis in parallel group designs using covariates

J1S15

Zhang

Student Award winner

Jing

Semiparametric estimation of causal mediation effects in randomized trials

J1S15

Gonzalez

Juan R

A Bayesian model for analysis of copy number variants in genetic studies

J1S2

Therneau

Terry

Gene set analysis for survival data using a mixed effects Cox model

J1S2

Tsonaka

Roula

Association tests for the effect of genetic pathways on longitudinal outcomes

J1S2

Taffe

Patrick

Contribution of multiple SNPS to longitudinal serum lipids in HIV-infected patients treated with antiretroviral therapy: marginal versus variance components modeling

J1S2

Dazard

Jean-Eudes

Local sparse bump hunting for finding groups in high-dimensional data

J1S3

Binder

Harald

Identifying snp interactions by cluster-localized sparse logistic regression

J1S3

Porzelius

Christine


J1S3

Hofling

Holger

Incorporating external molecular knowledge via fast algorithms for the fused lasso

J1S3

Reilly

Marie

Design and analysis of nested case-control studies that re-use existing control data

J1S4

Bousquet-Heraud

Vanina

A two-stage multiple imputation process applied to the national HIV case reporting in france

J1S4

Dejardin

David

Analysis of double censored data: review of the current methods and a new proposal

J1S4

James

Ian

Correlation estimation with bivariate censored data

J1S4

Unkel

Steffen

On the measurement of age-varying association in bivariate current status data

J1S4

Hampson

Lisa

Efficient group sequential tests for survival data

J1S5

van Breukelen

Gerard

Design of cluster randomized trial with unknown intraclass correlation

J1S5

Morita

Satoshi

Evaluating the impact of prior assumptions in Bayesian biostatistics

J1S5

Bauer

Peter

Maximum type I error rate when sample size and allocation rate are adapted at interim

J1S5

Candel

Math

Parallel, AB/BA crossover and Balaam’s design: efficient and maximin choices in a mixed effects linear regression analysis

J1S5

Choodari-Oskooei

Babak

Explained randomness measures in proportional hazards survival models

J1S6

Schoop

Rotraut

Predictive accuracy of models for competing risks time-to-event data

J1S6

Putter

Hein

Frailties in multistate models: are they identi
able? Do we need them?

J1S6

Rahman

Shafiqur

Measures to assess the prognostic ability of random effects models for clustered data

J1S6

Cortese

Giuliana

Prediction errors for cumulative risks in bone marrow transplant studies

J1S6

Murawska

Magdalena

Measuring the effect of repeated measurements on an event time

J1S7

Carr

Matthew

Modelling of longitudinal blood pressure data and morbidity/mortality events

J1S7

Ismail

Noor Azina

Detecting shifts in hospital outcomes with adjusted risk using Bayesian approach

J1S7

Di Termini

Susanna

A simulation technique for nonparametric analysis in multistate model

J1S7

Belot

Aurelien

Joint frailty excess hazard model for recurrent events and death

J1S7

Foulkes

Andrea

Mixture modeling for discovering multi-locus genotype-trait associations

J1S8

Ruczinski

Ingo

Detection of epistatic interactions in schizophrenic children

J1S8

Pawitan

Yudi

Estimating the number of true discoveries in a genome-wide association study

J1S8

Mansmann

Ulrich

A marginal global two-sample test for multivariate (high-dimensional) binary data

J1S8

Quartey

George

Assessing safety signals in large pharmaco-epidemiology databases using sample selection models

J1S9

Metcalfe

Chris

Estimating the international effect of drug regulator warnings

J1S9

Tanaka

Shiro

Instrumental variable estimation of the dose-response relationship in meta-analysis of exercise intervention trials

J1S9

Wang

Jixian

An approach to combining group sequential tests and false discovery rate for drug safety surveillance using spontaneous adverse event reporting databases

J1S9

Nicholas

Jennifer

Comparison of estimated treatment effect from non-randomised study designs

J1S9

Tuesday, 31




Wason

James

Minimising the maximum expected sample size in two-stage trials with continuous outcomes

J2S1

Kimani

Peter

Practical guidelines for adaptive seamless phase II/III clinical trials based on predictive power

J2S1

Pfirrmann

Markus

Bootstrap resampling based on predictive factors and independent patient samples to explain differences in survival probabilities between two leukaemia studies

J2S1

de Hoop

Esther

Balance in small cluster randomized trials: minimization versus unrestricted randomization, matching and stratification

J2S1

White

Ian

Uses and limitations of multiple imputation when estimating the treatment effect in randomised trials

J2S1

Bekaert

Maarten

On model selection in causal inference

J2S2

Palmer

Tom

Instrumental variable estimation of the causal risk ratio in cohorts

J2S2

O'Keeffe

Aidan

Causal inference in longitudinal data analysis: a case study in the epidemiology of psoriatic arthritis

J2S2

Xiao

Yongling

Comparison of alternative approaches for estimating parameters of marginal structural Cox models

J2S2

Heinze

Georg

Nonlinear interactions, confounding, and missing values: an interesting case study

J2S3

Cetinyurek Yavuz

Aysun

A flexible shared frailty model for interval-censored data

J2S3

Seaman

Shaun

Inverse probability weighting with missing predictors of probability

J2S3

Ho

Weang Kee

Crossover and parallel group designs in the presence of dropout

J2S3

Stylianou

Christos

Partial observability in IVF data: does it matter?

J2S3

Vergouwe

Yvonne

Dynamic validation and updating of prediction models in clinical decision support systems

J2S4

Rapsomaniki

Eleni

Comparing the public health benefits of prognostic models used to guide treatment decisions

J2S4

Geskus

Ronald

Cumulative incidence logistic regression

J2S4

Maucort-Boulch

Delphine

On a measure of information gain for regression models in survival analysis

J2S4

Ambler

Gareth

Developing risk models for survival outcomes when the number of events is small

J2S4

Mukherjee

Rajat

Bootstrapped power enhanced multiple testing

J2S5

Rippe

Ralph

Scala, a comprehensive statistical framework

J2S5

de Rooi

Johan

Discovering gene networks using L1 and L0 penalties

J2S5

Dossat

Nadege

An adaptive thresholding of wavelets coefficients for seldi-tof mass spectra

J2S5

Zwinderman

Aeilko

Estimation of the repertoire size of t cell based immunicity

J2S5

Wednesday, 1




Rockova

Veronika

Bayesian approach to model selection for binary responses

J3S1

Laubender

Ruediger P.

Can we predict the treatment effect on patient specific disease trajectories if cause-specific or subdistribution hazards detect treatment effects?

J3S1

Laubender

Ruediger P.

Comparing two grouped variable selection procedures for predicting two cardiologic outcomes by selecting metabolites

J3S1

Meijer

Rosa

Efficient approximate leave-one-out cross-validation for ridge and lasso

J3S1

Boussard

Tina

Identifying predictors of quality using signal detection analysis

J3S1

Harkanen

Tommi

Efficacy estimation complicated by non-ignorable use of psychotropics

J3S10

Hudson

Harold

Semi-parametric methods for survival estimation in semi-Markov models

J3S10

Sweeting

Michael

Joint modelling of the growth and time-to-rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms

J3S10

Copas

Andrew

Joint models for outcome and (the informative) number of measurements

J3S10

Abrams

Keith

Bayesian modelling of biomarker data to predict clinical outcomes

J3S10

Charvat

Hadrien

Time-interval distribution modelling to detect related infection cases

J3S2

Birrell

Paul

Bayesian real-time modelling of parallel a/h1n1 epidemics.

J3S2

Zuithoff

Nicolaas P.A.

Data reduction in prediction research with principal component analysis

J3S2

Bagnardi

Vincenzo

Log-linear symmetry models applied to reclassification tables to evaluate the added predictive ability of a new marker

J3S2

Peelen

Linda M

Performance measures for survival prediction: overview & application

J3S2

Thiebaut

Anne

The impact of multivariate measurement error in epidemiologic studies

J3S3

Groenwold

Rolf

Missing covariate data in clinical research: when and when not to use the missing indicator method

J3S3

Batistatou

Evridiki

Comparison of several regression calibration approaches to correct for bias due to measurement error using reliability data

J3S3

Grambauer

Nadine

Misspecified Cox analyses of left-truncated time-to-event data: an application to drug-exposed pregnancies

J3S3

Han

Student Award winner

Seungbong

Semiparametric modeling of doubly censored data with an application to prostate cancer

J3S3

Buyze

Jozefien

Evaluating dynamic treatment strategies. Is it really more costly?

J3S4

Michiels

Stefan

Multiple testing of treatment-effect modifying biomarkers in a randomized clinical trial with a survival endpoint

J3S4

Gaschler-Markefski

Birgit

Sample size determination of overall survival in a three-state model

J3S4

Hsu

Henry

Composite endpoints with mortality in clinical trials

J3S4

Nørgaard Møller

Lisbeth

An application of a history-adjusted marginal structural model

J3S5

Waernbaum

Ingeborg

Robust estimation in causal inference: comparing matching on a covariate score to inverse probability weighting and doubly robust estimation

J3S5

Gall

Christine

Data-generation with time-dependent confounders using only observables

J3S5

Vansteelandt

Stijn

Estimating direct effects on a dichotomous outcome using logistic structural direct effect models

J3S5

Emsley

Richard

Mediation analysis with growth mixture modelling

J3S5

Viviani

Laura

Nri index to evaluate added predictive ability of new markers: an adaptation for time-to-event outcomes

J3S6

Antolini

Laura

Performance of markers for censored failure time outcome: nonparametric approach based on proportions

J3S6

Brown

Julia

Illness-death models for modelling cardiovascular events

J3S6

Foulkes

Andrea

A prediction-based classification approach to prioritizing diagnostic testing

J3S6

Demattei

Christophe

An ordering-based approach for multiple spatio-temporal cluster detection for case event data

J3S6

Klingenberg

Bernhard

Simultaneous score confidence bounds for risk differences

J3S6

Molas

Marek

Cross-classified spline approach for fitting smoothly growth curves

J3S7

Perperoglou

Aris

Cox models with dynamic ridge penalties and time dependent covariate effects.

J3S7

Abrahamowicz

Michal

Joint flexible modeling of cumulative and non-linear effects of CD4 cell count on the hazard of HIV progression

J3S7

Dunkler

Daniela

Nonlinear time-dependent effects in Cox regression with moderate sample sizes

J3S7

van de Kassteele

Jan

Efficient smoothing of spatio-temporal point processes with application to a q-fever outbreak in the netherlands

J3S7

Stocken

Deborah

Choice of transformation for modelling non-linear continuous covariates

J3S7

Graham

Petra

Utility of Bayesian and frequentist prediction intervals in meta-analyses

J3S8

Bakra

Eleni

Modelling blood pressure over the life course combining data from different UK cohorts

J3S8

Verde

Pablo

Extensions of a Bayesian bivariate model for meta-analysis of diagnostic test

J3S8

Barrett

Jessica

Meta-analysis of survival outcomes using parametric models

J3S8

Senn

Stephen

Issues in performing a network meta-analysis of controlled trials

J3S8

Burgess

Stephen

Bias in causal estimates from Mendelian randomization studies with weak instruments

J3S8

Wang

Jixian

Analysis of dose-exposure and exposure-response relationship in clinical trial with response-dependent individual dose-adjustment

J3S9

Lin

Jr-Rung

Statistical methods for targeted clinical trials

J3S9

Lecoutre

Bruno

Frequentist performance of bayesian inference with response-adaptive designs for dose finding

J3S9

Van Rompaye

Bart

On the detection of biomarkers for early response and subsequent treatment evaluation in clinical trials

J3S9

Öhrn

Fredrik

Joint planning of phase II and phase III using Bayesian decision analysis

J3S9


Poster Sessions

Name first author

Title

Topic

Session

Monday 30 August and Tuesday 31 August

Zu Eulenburg

Christine

The extended semi-Markov multistate model by Andersen and Keiding to estimate the impact of progression on survival. a practical example of 215 ovarian cancer patients

1: Joint modeling of longitudinal outcome and times-to event

P1

Nonhlanhla

Yende

Factors associated with the rate of increase in CD4+ count over the first two years in patients initiated on haart in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

1: Joint modeling of longitudinal outcome and times-to event

P1

Gorkiewicz

Maciej

Psychometric scales from cognitive perspective: the reasoning style as outcome

10: Latent variable models

P1

Regnault

Antoine

Development of symptom indices using formative structural equation models: application to the pac-sym questionnaire

10: Latent variable models

P1

Menten

Joris

Estimating infection rates from repeated tests without a gold standard

10: Latent variable models

P1

Li

Baoyue

Logistic random effects regression models: a comparison of statistical packages

10: Latent variable models

P1

Baroukh

Tiba

The psychotherapy practices based research's network

11: Design and analysis of non pharmaceutical trials/device trials

P1

Mohebbi

Mohammadreza

Spatial autocorrelation between geographically referenced observations: geographic distribution esophageal and gastric cancer in caspian region of iran, adjusted for covariates

12: Spatial data analysis

P1

Knapp

Guido

Precision of one-step versus two-step ipd meta-analysis estimator

13: Meta-analyses

P1

Sauerbrei

Willi

A new strategy for meta analysis of continuous covariates in observational studies

13: Meta-analyses

P1

Debray

Thomas

Meta-analysis of clinical prediction rules: incorporating known univariate associations as prior knowledge when analyzing multivariate data

13: Meta-analyses

P1

Matsuoka

Nobushige

Improvement of statistical power for detecting publication bias in meta-analysis using clinical trial registration system

13: Meta-analyses

P1

Rucker

Gerta

Effect estimates adjusted for small-study effects in meta-analysis

13: Meta-analyses

P1

McKinnon

Elizabeth

Exploring informative diversity in SNP-based association studies

14: Genetic epidemiology

P1

Hirakawa

Akihiro

Sample size calculation through the incorporation of heteroscedasticity and dependence for a penalized t-statistic in microarray experiments

15: Bioinformatics

P1

Naudet-Briand

Benedicte

Impact of noise on the detection of copy-number variations in array cgh measurements

15: Bioinformatics

P1

Wolbers

Marcel

Cd4 cell slope and aids — a case study in longitudinal data analysis

16: Prediction

P1

Bouwmeester

Walter

A comparison between multilevel and standard logistic regression analysis for predicting clustered patient outcomes

16: Prediction

P1

Worby

Colin

MRSA transmission in general hospital wards using hidden Markov models

16: Prediction

P1

Jose A.

Vilar

Forecasting age-specific breast cancer mortality: a new nonparametric functional approach

16: Prediction

P1

Esteban

Luis mariano

Evaluating the predictiveness of new biomarkers in prostate cancer recurrence

16: Prediction

P1

Huang

Liping

Evaluating traditional and tree-structured survival model performance

16: Prediction

P1

Zarcone

Maurizio

Grey modeling on breast cancer data in Sicily (Italy)

16: Prediction

P1

Lu

Difei

Prognostic models based on literature and individual data: a Bayesian method with data augmentation

16: Prediction

P1

Combescure

Christophe

Prognostic performances binary factors: prognostic ROC (PROC) curves

16: Prediction

P1

Almendra-Arao

Felix

Behavior of the asymptotic pooled z-statistics

17: Clinical trials

P1

Hirakawa

Akihiro

A practical comparison of response-adaptive randomizations in clinical trials with binary responses

17: Clinical trials

P1

Chin-Fu Hsiao

Chin-Fu

A consistency approach to evaluation of bridging studies and multiregional trials

17: Clinical trials

P1

Glass

Aenne

Stratified randomization in clinical trials: advantage in balance of a prognostic factor

17: Clinical trials

P1

Gerlinger

Christoph

Considerations on what is meant by “qualified statistician” in regulatory submissions

17: Clinical trials

P1

Peacock

Janet

Communicating the disadvantage of dichotomisation to the trialist: comparative tables of sample sizes.

17: Clinical trials

P1

Hartley

Benjamin

Phase II-III adaptive design with dose selection & non-inferiority test

17: Clinical trials

P1

Kawaguchi

Atsushi

Stratified multivariate Mann-Whitney estimators for the comparison of two treatments with randomization based covariance adjustment

17: Clinical trials

P1

Mordenti

Giacomo

Bayesian adaptive randomization in early development oncology

17: Clinical trials

P1

Rauch

Geraldine

Sample size calculation for the assessment of composite endpoints and its components

17: Clinical trials

P1

Barry

Sarah

The Scottish health informatics programme (ship): can electronic patient records inform clinical trial endpoints?

17: Clinical trials

P1

Tanguy

Jerome

Strengths, weaknesses of different statistical models to analyse recurrent events

17: Clinical trials

P1

Schmidli

Heinz

Using historical data in the analysis of multiple sclerosis trials

17: Clinical trials

P1

Viala-Danten

Muriel

The interpretation of patient-reported outcome data: a challenge for statisticians?

17: Clinical trials

P1

Mizuki Yoshida

Mizuki

A stochastic curtailment method based on the weighted log-rank test for delayed treatment effects

17: Clinical trials

P1

Rebora

Paola

Sample size formula for one-arm trials with recurrent events

17: Clinical trials

P1

Hamel

Jean-francois

Is the oscillometric method reliable to access the ankle-brachial pressure index?

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P1

Katsuta

Tomoya

The statically analysis of prognosis factor in acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P1

Hamel

Jean-francois

Comparison of pulse wave velocity measurements' repeatability depending on the operator’s training.

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P1

Saeki

Hiroyuki

Non-inferiority test for diagnostic tests based on multiple readers

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P1

Nakas

Christos

Accuracy and cut-off point selection in three-class classification problems

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P1

Good

Norm

A classification approach for creating a normative dataset

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P1

Macaskill

Petra

Monitoring creatinine to detect early complications post-kidney transplant.

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P1

Farnell

Damian

Cross-study inference using calibration samples

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P1

Antolini

Laura

Comparing sub-distribution hazards by a log-rank approach

21: Survival analysis and Multistate models

P1

Lauseker

Michael

Comparison of three approaches of modelling cause-specific hazards in the context of myelodysplastic syndrome

21: Survival analysis and Multistate models

P1

Rouam

Sigrid

Selecting genomic markers for survival analysis: a pseudo-r2 measure designed for non proportional hazards response

21: Survival analysis and Multistate models

P1

Jang

Eun-Jin

Excess mortality associated with seasonal influenza in Korea during 1997-2008 influenza seasons

21: Survival analysis and Multistate models

P1

Hoyle

Martin

Improved survival curve fits to summary data for economic evaluations

3: Health economic evaluations

P1

Sato

Hiroki

Cost-effectiveness analysis of neonatal mass screening for severe combined immunodeficiency by quantification of t-cell receptor excision circles

3: Health economic evaluations

P1

Bujkiewicz

Sylwia

Transparent interactive decision interrogator (tidi): an interface for facilitating transparent decision making in health technology assessment (hta)

3: Health economic evaluations

P1

Chen Won Sun

Won Sun

Psychometric properties of the Malay version of the EQ-5D in Malaysia

3: Health economic evaluations

P1

Inan

Gul

Comparison of methods for the analysis of incomplete longitudinal count data: a simulation study

4: Incomplete data

P1

Lawo

John-Philip

Handling of values below lloq

4: Incomplete data

P1

Robaina

Maytee

Analysis of incomplete longitudinal psychiatric data

4: Incomplete data

P1

Yonemoto

Naohiro

Sensitivity analysis for missing data with due to death for developmental outcomes in very low birth weight infants followed-up cohort study

4: Incomplete data

P1

Omar

Rumana

Use of multivariate multilevel models to reduce bias when observations are missing not at random

4: Incomplete data

P1

Uemura

Yukari

Estimation of marginal survival probability for dynamic treatment regimes with two thresholds

5: Dynamic treatment regimens

P1

McNamee

Roseanne

Efficacy estimation from survival data with wrong carryover assumption

7: Causal inference

P1

Sauzet

Odile

Quality of conduct and reporting of rcts in neuropathic pain taken from a systematic review.

7: Causal inference

P1

Ohlsson

Henrik

Variation in prescription patterns among health care institutions

7: Causal inference

P1

Kuroki

Manabu

Selection of graphical identifiability criteria for causal effects

7: Causal inference

P1

Quantin

Catherine

Empirical comparison of alternative marginal structural models for estimating causal effects of haart therapy on time to hiv progression

8: Model selection

P1

Md. Hasinur Rahaman Khan

Md. Hasinur

Penalized regression approaches to variable selection for AFT models in high dimensions

8: Model selection

P1

Sanagou

Masoumeh

A two-level risk prediction model for 30-day mortality following cardiac surgery

8: Model selection

P1

Willemsen

Sten

Contrasting two approaches for fitting growth curve data

8: Model selection

P1

Hosseini

Sayed Mohsen

Trends of creatinine among patients with type 2 diabetes in isfahan endocrine and metabolism research center (iemrc) between 1997-2007: a longitudinal study

8: Model selection

P1

Klersy

Catherine

Are we clinical epidemiologists or data miners?

8: Model selection

P1

Loeys

Tom

Wavelet-based functional mixed models for the analysis of lateralized readiness potentials

9: Statistical modeling approaches involving smoothing

P1

Grathwohl

Dominik

Zero-inflated models for the analysis of bacteria counts

9: Statistical modeling approaches involving smoothing

P1

Horova

Ivanka

Change points detection of a smooth estimate of a hazard function

9: Statistical modeling approaches involving smoothing

P1

Bousquet

Damien

About inference in semiparametric Marshall Olkin distributions

9: Statistical modeling approaches involving smoothing

P1

Wilson

Douglas

Cusum-assessed personalized hypotensive treatment surveillance.

Epidemiology

P1

Turkiewicz

Aleksandra

Confidence intervals for rates based on estimated person-time at risk

Epidemiology

P1

Frøslie

Kathrine Frey

Is the association between bmi and birthweight mediated by interleukins?

Epidemiology

P1

Hassanzadeh

Akbar

Compare of lecturing and role playing on knowledge and performance of high school students in first aid at emergency scene

Epidemiology

P1

Sypsa

Vana

Estimation of epidemiological parameters for pandemic influenza a/h1n1 from surveillance data

Epidemiology

P1

Jung

Sun-Young

Estimation of excess hospitalization due to seasonal influenza using nationwide claims database

Epidemiology

P1

Kato

Mai

Analyzing psychiatric data adjusting confounders and practice effects

Epidemiology

P1

Ejlali

Nasim

A bidirectional model in linear memory for hidden Markov model

Methodology

P1

Aghdam

Rosa

A bidirectional Bayesian Monte Carlo and a clustering approach for estimating parameters of a profile hidden Markov models

Methodology

P1

Jackson

Dan

Identifying influential observations in Bayesian models using Monte Carlo Markov chain

Methodology

P1

Gajda

Dorota

KL divergence and L1 norm for importance sampling combined with MCMC in Bayesian simulation study.

Methodology

P1

Yadegarfar

Ghasem

Predictors of longitudinal change in systolic and diastolic blood pressure: an application of multilevel modeling

Multilevel

P1

Kalema

George

Psuedo-likelihood methodology applied to longitudinal count data

Multilevel

P1

Tamaki

Junko

Assessing the impact of urinary salt and potassium excretion on blood pressure levels with generalized estimating equations using the longitudinal worksite study database: the high-risk and population strategy for occupational health promotion (hipop-ohp) study

Multilevel

P1

Wednesday, 1 September and Thursday 2 September

Janousova

Eva

Current leukaemia-free survival in cml patients treated with imatinib

1: Joint modeling of longitudinal outcome and times-to event

P2

Lee

Mei-Ling Ting

Comparison of threshold regression to accelerated failure time models

1: Joint modeling of longitudinal outcome and times-to event

P2

Kifley

Annette

Multilevel latent variable models for global health-related life quality

10: Latent variable models

P2

Blanchin

Myriam

Analysis of longitudinal patient reported outcomes with missing data

10: Latent variable models

P2

Hamel

Jean-Francois

Rasch models to detect a group effect for patients reported outcomes

10: Latent variable models

P2

Roberts

Chris

The analysis of non-pharmacological therapy trials in which patients receive treatment from more than one care-provider

11: Design and analysis of non pharmaceutical trials/device trials

P2

Carrasco

Josep

Measuring FMRI reliability accounting for spatial autocorrelation

12: Spatial data analysis

P2

Julious

Steven

Investigating homogeneity of treatment effects in clinical studies with application to meta-analysis

13: Meta-analyses

P2

Combescure

Christophe

Meta-analysis of binary outcomes from two-by-two tables when the length of follow-up varies

13: Meta-analyses

P2

Youdom Whegang

Solange

Unbalanced multiple treatment- meta-analysis of clinical trials with an ordinal primary outcome and repeated measurements

13: Meta-analyses

P2

Trajkovic

Goran

Detecting reporting bias by comparing the study reports with the reanalysis of published individual patient data

13: Meta-analyses

P2

Roloff

Verena

Assessing the potential impact of future studies on a meta-analysis, with implications for planning new research

13: Meta-analyses

P2

Chandra

Sc Awards Winner

Bhushan-Tripathi

Tau & amyloid in diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (ad): a meta-analysis

13: Meta-analyses

P2

Mehlig

Kirsten

Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (cetp) taq1b polymorphism, hdl-cholesterol, alcohol consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease

14: Genetic epidemiology

P2

Freitas

Sonia

Risk of coronary disease conferred by the association of the cc locus 9p21 variant with smoking

14: Genetic epidemiology

P2

Magdalena

Sc Awards Winner

Wietlicka-Piszcz

The classification of liver tissues based on microarray data

14: Genetic epidemiology

P2

Enki

Doyo Gragn

On the divisive hierarchical clustering of genes

15: Bioinformatics

P2

Wolinska-Welcz

Anna

Grade exploration of clinical data with reference to monotone dependence

15: Bioinformatics

P2

Cwiklinska-Jurkowska

Malgorzata

Performance of liver cancer recognition for cirrhotic patients based on micro-array experiments

15: Bioinformatics

P2

Collignon

Olivier

A simultaneous stepwise variable selection and clustering algorithm to predict the dose of peanut triggering reactions in allergic patients

16: Prediction

P2

Schafer

Juliane

Predicting short-term outcome in emergency department patients with non-specific complaints by boosting additive logistic regression

16: Prediction

P2

Ana Luisa Papoila

Ana

Using GAMS to find cutpoints for continuous covariates

16: Prediction

P2

Rossa

Agnieszka

Mortality forecasting based on the modified Lee-Carter methodology

16: Prediction

P2

Hoffmann

Verena

Prediction of treatment outcome in cml by use of three recursive partitioning methods: CART, bagging and random forests

16: Prediction

P2

Henriques

Carla

Maternal bmi, weight gain and iom weight gain recommendations in the prediction of obstetric outcomes

16: Prediction

P2

Bonnet

Laura

Developing a prognostic model for epilepsy data

16: Prediction

P2

Torres

Juan

Efficiency of stroke clinical trials with ordinal outcomes: a simulation study

16: Prediction

P2

Nataša

Sc Awards Winner

Bogavac-Stanojevic

The discriminative ability of novel biomarkers in risk prediction for coronary artery disease

16: Prediction

P2

Uemura

Kohei

A Bayesian sample size re-estimation method accounting for a prior information of treatment difference

17: Clinical trials

P2

Lingsma

Hester

Between-center differences in outcome after traumatic brain injury:

17: Clinical trials

P2

Gaus

Wilhelm

Validity of results of controlled, not-randomised studies

17: Clinical trials

P2

Karapanagiotou-Schenkel

Irini

Phase II, two-stage, single-arm cancer clinical trial – waiting or overrunning?

17: Clinical trials

P2

Friede

Tim

Blinded information-based monitoring of clinical trials

17: Clinical trials

P2

Potschgerq

Ulrike

Design of a randomised trial for the comparison of different treatment durations

17: Clinical trials

P2

Tiwari

Jawahar

Islet cell transplantation for the treatment of type 1 diabetes

17: Clinical trials

P2

Hunt

Devin

Statistical analysis validation techniques and the often overlooked clinical review process

17: Clinical trials

P2

Close

Nicole

Is it intention to treat analysis or are we just fooling everyone?

17: Clinical trials

P2

Kanik

Emine Arzu

Using similarity index to evaluate baseline homogeneity before and after randomization in clinical trial

17: Clinical trials

P2

Borgulya

Gabor

Paired samples bootstrap tests of means without normality assumption

17: Clinical trials

P2

Teerenstra

Steven

A simple sample size formula for analysis of covariance in cluster randomized trials

17: Clinical trials

P2

Reiczigel

Jeno

Estimation and testing of risk ratio adjusted for sensitivity and specificity

17: Clinical trials

P2

Chehrazi

mohammad

Bayesian analysis application and advantages in sperm biology researches, a practical example

17: Clinical trials

P2

Kunz

Cornelia

Stochastic Curtailment for Two-stage Designs with One or Two Endpoints

17: Clinical trials

P2

Zain

Zakiyah

Deriving an estimator for the correlation between two logrank statistics

17: Clinical trials

P2

Willis

Brian

Investigation of heterogeneity in meta-analyses of diagnostic tests

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

van Zwet

Erik

Specificity and sensitivity in the absence of a golden standard

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

Clements

Mark

Estimation of the prevalence of metastatic cancer using the miamod model

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

Szymanski

Andrzej

Correlation between gerontological bother and the preference system - investigated by means of fuzzy statistics

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

Kada

Akiko

Characterising diagnostic performance with combining several continuous test results

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

Majek

Ondrej

Provider profiling in a screening programme using hierarchical model

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

Boda

Krisztina

Assessing agreement between two simultaneous measurements for in vivo tonometric study with multiple observations per individual

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

Hosseini

Sayed Mohsen

Iranian risk model for diabetic retinopathy

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

Ahmad Zaki

Rafdzah

A review of statistical methods used to assess agreement in medicine

2: Diagnostic testing and screening methodology

P2

Bouliotis

George

Survival frailty models in public dental health: assessing visits to Scottish dental surgeries

21: Survival analysis and Multistate models

P2

Tanaka

Sachiko

Approximated likelihood method for analysis of interval-censored data with measurement error

21: Survival analysis and Multistate models

P2

Metcalfe

Chris

Estimating the temporal association between two series of events

21: Survival analysis and Multistate models

P2

Mwangi

Ann

Causal inference for survival times with informative censoring & missing exposure

21: Survival analysis and Multistate models

P2

Etienne

Kaelin

3-dimensional pictogram of risk measures in epidemiology

3: Health economic evaluations

P2

Doherty

Dorota

Pregnancy complications and outcomes as a Markov model

3: Health economic evaluations

P2

Dunger-Baldauf

Cornelia

Comparing minimum important differences to observed treatment effects

3: Health economic evaluations

P2

Siani

Carole

The handling of uncertainty around the incremental cost-utility ratio accounting for mapping interpolation using bootstrap metods

3: Health economic evaluations

P2

Yonemoto

Naohiro

Sensitivity analysis for missing data with due to death for developmental outcomes in very low birth weight infants followed-up cohort study

4: Incomplete data

P2

Vesin

Aurelien

The use of multiple imputation on a worldwide survey to identify risk factors of job strain in intensive care workers

4: Incomplete data

P2

Kyr

Michal

Constructing a long-time 15-year disease model of brain atrophy in patients with multiple sclerosis utilizing short-time data from a 4-year longitudinal study using linear mixed effects models: effect of apoe e4 genotype on brain atrophy

4: Incomplete data

P2

Sanchez-Niubo

Albert

Row and column effects association model for incomplete tables of drug use

4: Incomplete data

P2

Kvaloy

Jan Terje

Analysing clinical state transitions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

5: Dynamic treatment regimens

P2

Pirracchio

Romain

Evaluation of the propensity score methods in case of small sample size or low treatment prevalence

7: Causal inference

P2

Vourli

Georgia

Performance of the marginal structural models under various scenarios of incomplete marker’s value: a simulation study

7: Causal inference

P2

Glass

Tracy

Causal models for the impact of time-updated adherence to antiretroviral therapy on clinical outcomes in hiv-infected individuals

7: Causal inference

P2

Maracy

Mohammad

Factors related to readmission of psychiatric inpatients in noor hospital, Isfahan, Iran 2004-2009

8: Model selection

P2

Cvancarova Småstuen

Milada

Modelling time to event in the presence of competing risk – three different approaches applied to a large registry base data

8: Model selection

P2

Gatto

Maria Gosaria Antonella

An application of cluster analysis to the anatomical distribution of 6 periodontal pathogens.

8: Model selection

P2

Pavlik

Tomas

The importance of regression diagnostic tools in Cox modelling

8: Model selection

P2

Rousson

Valentin

A comparison of nonparametric fits applied to seasonal indicators used in case of heat wave alarm in Switzerland

9: Statistical modeling approaches involving smoothing

P2

Oliveira

Pedro

Individual control charts with varying limits

9: Statistical modeling approaches involving smoothing

P2

Napier

Gary

Modelling obesity in Scotland

9: Statistical modeling approaches involving smoothing

P2

Yuen

Ho Ming

Are we given a longer duration of treatment for depression? A study of changes over time using the gprd

Epidemiology

P2

Valeria

Edefonti

The effect of weather conditions in patients suffering from chronic masticatory muscle pain

Epidemiology

P2

Gefeller

Olaf

How can the responsibility for the occurrence of disease be shared between different risk factors in occupational epidemiology?

Epidemiology

P2

Pfahlberg

Annette

Confidence intervals for the partial attributable risk

Epidemiology

P2

Gillaizeau

Florence

Relationship between antibiotic consumption and resistance: comparison of three transfer function models on five-year data from a French university hospital.

Epidemiology

P2

Perera Chang

Manuel

Characterizing the ideal renal replacement therapy

Epidemiology

P2

Carla

Nunes

The characteristics of first 5 months h1n1 cases in Portugal

Epidemiology

P2

Sugar

Elizabeth

Accounting for non-Gaussian distributions in statistical modeling

Methodology

P2

Zhu

Qi

A Bayesian Markov chain based heteroscedastic regression model for the analysis of O-labelled mass spectra

Methodology

P2

Anna

Sc Awards Winner

Welcz

Grade exploration of clinical data with reference to monotone dependence

Methodology

P2

Diya

Luwis

A multivariate multilevel model for health outcomes

Multilevel

P2

Bizjajeva

Svetlana

Indications for hip and knee replacement in Sweden

Multilevel

P2

Mutsvari

Timothy

Correcting for misclassification for a binary outcome using differential sensitivity and specificity with an application In dental research.

Multilevel

P2

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