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Workshops A series of pre and post conference workshops, ranging from 1-5 days in duration will support the conference. More information including workshop costs will be advised shortly. Workshop topics include: DATES: 4-5 December 2010 Presenters: Scott Evans, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health and Rui Wang, Instructor of Medicine, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. A clinical trial is the gold standard scientific study for evaluating the efficacy and safety of an intervention. Several challenges arise during the design, conduct, analyses, and reporting of clinical trials. This lecture-based short-course will address several topic areas in clinical trials. The course will cover topics such as: (1) general issues in clinical trial design, (2) the design, conduct, analyses, and reporting of non-inferiority trials, (3) data monitoring committees and associated processes, (4) benefit:risk analyses and reporting, (5) using prediction to make more informed decisions during interim analyses, (6) subgroup analyses and personalized medicine, (7) Meta analysis, and (8) the roles of the clinical trial statistician. For more information on this workshop, download the workshop information flyer or contact Dr Mark Griffin on m.griffin@uq.edu.au. Register your interest in attending this workshop.
Capture-Recapture Models Using Mark and other Software for Fisheries and Wildlife Research DATES: 1-5 December 2010 Presenters: Professor Ken Pollock, Murdoch University and Dr Lyndon Brooks, Southern Cross University. Kenneth H. Pollock has been appointed to a chair in Quantitative Methods in the Fisheries Center at Murdoch University. Previously he was a professor at North Carolina State University in Statistics, Biomathematics and Biology specializing in quantitative methods for fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association. The position is funded by FRDC, Western Australia Fisheries and Murdoch University. One component of this position is to develop and present workshops on quantitative methods for fisheries and other natural resource postgraduate students and professional scientists. Outline:
For more details on this workshop please contact Ken Pollock; phone 08 9360 6582. For more information consult the website.
Introductory Analysis of Linked Health DataDATES: 29 November to 3 December 2010 Location: School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia Places limited to 36. This intensive five-day course, developed by Professor D'Arcy Holman, covers the theory and practical skills needed to analyse linked data from administrative, clinical and research databases at the introductory to intermediate level. In particular, it includes: i) an overview of the theory of data linkage systems and methods, ii) principles of epidemiologic measurement and methods applicable to linked data covering disease trends and health care utilisation and outcomes, iii) minimising sources of measurement error, iv) statistical analyses on longitudinal linked health data, v) conceptualisation and management of large linked data files, and vi) writing computing syntax to prepare linked data files for analysis and production of results from statistical procedures in SPSS, SAS or Stata (the course supports all three). Basic familiarity with computing syntax and a working knowledge of statistical concepts, including regression models, used in data analysis in the medical and social sciences is assumed. A computing laboratory will be provided, but many participants prefer to bring their own notebooks supporting either SPSS, SAS or Stata. Course Coordinators:
Professor D'Arcy Holman and Associate
Professor David Preen
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