ViCBiostat Winter School 2017

5 Jun 2017 09:00am to 9 Jun 2017 05:00pm

ViCBiostat Winter School 2017

Workshop

Event Location

Vernon Collins Lecture Theatre, Royal Children's Hospital

50 Flemington Road

Parkville VIC 3052

Australia

Documents

HELP Precinct.pdf

Winter school 2017 flyer.pdf

Speakers

Prof. Lyle Gurrin

Lyle Gurrin is Professor of Biostatistics at the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and President of the Victorian Branch of the...

Jessica completed a PhD at the University of Adelaide in 2010. Her research interests include statistical methods for the comparison of healthcare provider performance and assessment of changes in performance,...

Assoc. Prof. Margarita Moreno-Betancur

Margarita is co-lead of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) at the MCRI and the University of Melbourne. Since completing her PhD in Biostatistics at Université Paris-Sud in 2014...

Prof. Julie Simpson

Julie is Head of the Biostatistics Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne and Director of the Methods and Implementation Support for Clinical...

Prof. Katherine Lee

Katherine (Kate) is a professor of biostatistics at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and is the Associate Director: Biostatistics of the Melbourne Children’s Trials Centre. She also holds an honorary...

Dr Cattram Nguyen

Cattram completed a PhD in biostatistics at the University of Melbourne in 2014. Her statistical areas of interest include the design and analysis of clinical trials and methods for missing...

Prof. Rory Wolfe

Rory is a biostatistician at Monash University and contributes to a wide range of epidemiological and clinical research studies. He obtained his PhD in statistics from Southampton University (UK), subsequently...

STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH

The inaugural ViCBiostat Winter School will commence in June this year with a 5 day Melbourne program, designed to provide an intensive introduction to a range of intermediate to advanced statistical methods that are important in modern health research. The courses will include extensive discussion of practical examples and hands-on training in relevant statistical software using the Stata and R packages.

Who should attend?

Prerequisite knowledge for this workshop is a sound understanding of epidemiological and statistical concepts including multivariable regression models. The level of course material is well beyond an introduction to biostatistics. Knowledge of either Stata or R is important with participants expected to be able to conduct reproducible statistical analyses using the programming language in at least one of these packages.

PROGRAM

5th & 6th June - Introduction to Causal Inference
PRESENTERS: Assoc Prof Lyle Gurrin, Dr Jessica Kasza, Dr Margarita Moreno-Betancur
Course summary
Timetable Days 1 & 2
Suggested reading

7th June - Multiple Imputation for Missing Data
PRESENTERS: Prof Julie Simpson, A/Prof Katherine Lee & Dr Cattram Nguyen
Course summary
Timetable - Day 3
Suggested reading

8th & 9th June - Advanced Survival Analysis
PRESENTERS: Dr Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Prof Rory Wolfe
Course summary
Timetable - Days 4 & 5
Suggested reading

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Participants are expected to have copies of required software R or Stata V12 applicable for each day pre-installed on laptops and ready to use required for all sessions.

COURSE FEES AND REGISTRATION
Click here to see course fees.

Registration via Trybooking now open.

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