[Forum SIS] EXPO2015 Statisticalps Course: METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PREDICTION: MULTI-STATE MODELS AND LANDMARKING

[Laura Antolini]

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to announce that the deadline registration 
of 2015 edition of
"STATISTICALPS: Course on Medical Statistics...in the 
Alps", has been extended to
8th June 2105.

For more information, please visit our web-site:
http://www.statmed.medicina.unimib.it/statisticalps2015/statisticalps.htm


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STATISTICALPS: Course on Medical Statistics...in the Alps
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METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PREDICTION: MULTI-STATE MODELS AND
LANDMARKING
7-10 September 2015 - Residential course
Ponte di Legno, Brescia, Italy

FACULTY: HEIN PUTTER & HANS VAN HOUWELINGEN
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)

COORDINATORS: Maria Grazia Valsecchi & Laura Antolini
Center of Biostatistics for Clinical Epidemiology,
University of Milano-Bicocca

ABSTRACT:
Prediction models play an important role in medicine to
guide treatment   decisions and to inform patients on
their prognosis. The vast majority   of prediction models
developed in the medical literature have been   designed
to predict (disease-free) survival from diagnosis or start
of  treatment. But in clinical practice the patient
regularly returns to the   physician and it is important
to be able to provide updated predicted   probabilities of
survival, taking into account clinical events that may
 have occurred, or clinical measurements that may have
been made,  between  start of treatment and the time of
prediction. Such prediction  models,  to be used after
start of treatment and taking into account  time-dependent
information, are called dynamic prediction models. In
 this course we focus on the development and validation of
dynamic   prediction models in clinical survival analysis.
It will be discussed   how dynamic prediction
probabilities can be obtained using traditional   models
and new approaches will be presented that have been
developed in  the last few years.
The course will consist of a mix of lectures and computer
practicals.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Applied statisticians, in particular biostatisticians who
actively   involved clinical research. Graduate PhD
students interested in   survival analysis.

PREREQUISITES:
Intermediate knowledge of survival analysis, basic
knowledge of the R package.

CONTACTS:
statisticalps a unimib.it
http://www.statmed.medicina.unimib.it/statisticalps2015/statisticalps.htm

This course is part of the summer course activities of
Univerisity of Milano Bicocca in the Expo2015 framework
http://www.summerschoolexpo2015.com/methods-dynamic-prediction.php

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