ROeS Seminar 2005 The following seminar program is also available as pdf file.
Pre-Seminar Course by José Pinheiro on Mixed-Effects Models (Abstract)
| Session 1: | Proof of Concept – Early Clinical Development |
| Coordinator: U. Burger, M. Branson (Basel, Switzerland) | |
| • D. Berry (Texas, USA) | |
| Proof of Concept Concepts (Slides) | |
| • B. Reigner (Basel, Switzerland) | |
| Examples of Proof of Concept Studies in Clinical Development (Abstract) | |
| • A. Racine (Basel, Switzerland) | |
| Decisions in a Proof of Concept Strategy? A Union between Pharmacology and Statistics(Abstract) | |
| Session 2: | New Developments in Survival Analysis |
| Coordinator: M. Schemper (Vienna, Austria) | |
| • R. Henderson (Lancaster, UK) | |
| Modelling, Estimation and Diagnostics for Longitudinal Binary Data with Dropout (Abstract) | |
| • J. Stare (Ljubljana, Slovenia) | |
| New Developments in Relative Survival (Abstract) | |
| • G. Heinze (Medical University of Vienna, Austria) | |
| Exact Logrank Tests for Analyses of Gene Expression Profiles (Abstract) | |
| • A. Wienke (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) | |
| A Bivariate Compound Poisson Frailty Model (Abstract) | |
| Session 3: | Analysis of Safety Data in Drug Development |
| Coordinator: G. Rosenkranz (Basel, Switzerland) | |
| • G. Rosenkranz (Basel, Switzerland) | |
| Introductory Remarks on Safety Analyses | • G. Kralidis (Basel, Switzerland) |
| Approaches to Signal Detection in Early Clinical Development (Abstract) | |
| • B. Klingenberg (Williamstown, USA) | |
| Multivariate Extensions of the McNemar's Test for Drug Safety Evaluations (Abstract) | |
| • J. Dubin (Waterloo, Canada) | |
| Life History Event Charts and other Graphical Methods for the Analysis of Safety Data (Abstract) | |
| • F. König (Vienna, Austria) | |
| Adaptive Selection and Multiple Testing of Effective and Safe Treatments(Abstract) | |
| Session 4: | Statistical Methods in Epidemiology |
| Coordinator: H. Ulmer (Innsbruck, Austria) | |
| • H. Brenner (Heidelberg, Germany) | |
| New Methodological Developments in Population-Based Monitoring of Cancer Patient Survival (Abstract) | |
| • W. Oberaigner (Innsbruck, Austria) | |
| Time Trend and Age-Period-Cohort Effect on Prostate Cancer Mortality in Tyrol, Austria, after Introduction of PSA Testing (Abstract) | • R. Pfeiffer (Bethesda, USA) |
| Inference for Covariates from Combined Family and Case Control data (Abstract) | |
| Session 5a: | Open Topics |
| Coordinator: Ch. Hoffmann (Zürich, Switzerland) | |
| • U. Römisch (Berlin, Germany) | |
| Application of Interactive Regularised Discriminant Analysis to Wine Data (Abstract) | |
| • H.P. Stüger (Graz, Austria) | |
| Asymmetric Loss Functions and Sample Size Determination – A Bayesian Approach (Abstract) | |
| • S. Zehetmayer (Vienna, Austria) | |
| Two-stage Designs for Experiments with a Large Number of Hypotheses (Abstract) | |
| • V. Barbieri (Innsbruck, Austria) | |
| Spatial Clustering of Austrian Health Care Supply using Hospitals as Point Sources (Abstract) | |
| Session 5b: | Contributions of Young Statisticians |
| Coordinators: E. Stadlober, A. Berghold (Graz, Austria) | |
| • I. Baldi (Torino, Italy) | |
| An Application of the Cox-Aalen Model in a Record-Linkage Study of a Population-Based Breast Cancer Cohort (Abstract) | |
| • A. Balogh (Budapest, Hungary) | |
| Comparing Information Criteria for Capture-Recapture Model Selection via Monte Carlo Simulation (Abstract) | |
| • S. Hörmann (Graz, Austria) | |
| Investigations on Particulate Matter PM10 in Graz (Abstract) | |
| • P. Ziherl (Ljubljana, Slovenia) | |
| The Effects of Group Social Capital on the Performance of PhD Students (Abstract) | |
| Session 6: | Conditional vs. Marginal Modelling |
| Coordinator: H. Friedl (Graz, Austria) | |
| • G. Tutz (Munich, Germany) | |
| Semiparametric Mixed Models and Boosting (Abstract) | |
| • J. Pinheiro (East Hanover, USA) | |
| Conditional versus Marginal Covariance Representation for Linear and Nonlinear Models (Abstract) | |
| • J. Hinde (Galway, Ireland) | |
| Random Effects, Mixtures, and NPMLE (Abstract, Slides) | |
| • D. Gregori (Torino, Italy) | |
| Link Function in Marginal and Random Effects Models: Some Notes on Robustness to Link Mis-specifications (Abstract) | • J. Hofrichter (Graz, Austria) |
| Statistical Modelling of Annual Maxima in Hydrology(Abstract) | |
| Session 7: | Space-time Models for Environmental and Epidemiological Data |
| Coordinator: H.-R. Künsch (Zürich, Switzerland) | |
| • M. Stein (Chicago, USA) | |
| Seasonal Variations in the Spatial-Temporal Dependence of Total Column Ozone (Abstract) | |
| • M. Schlather (Hamburg, Germany) | |
| Modelling of Spatio-Temporal Processes (Abstract, Slides) | |
| • L. Held (Munich, Germany) | |
| Parameter- and Observation-Driven Space-Time Interaction in Epidemiology (Abstract) | |
| • H. Wagner (Linz, Austria) | |
| Gibbs Sampling for Time Series of Small Counts (Abstract) |