Department of Statistics

Advanced Statistical Models: Applications in Medical Statistics

Saturday, 8 December, 2007 9am-4pm
Macquarie University, Sydney

This one-day workshop is being hosted by the Department of Statistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, and is being held following the International Biometric Society Australasian Regional Conference, Biometrics by the Beach, in Coffs Harbour, north of Sydney.

The purpose of the workshop is to present recent developments of advanced statistical methods in medical statistics and to highlight recent contributions by visiting scholars and current PhD students in biostatistics in the Department of Statistics.

Our keynote speaker is Elvezio Ronchetti, Professor of Statistics, Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva. Besides his authorship on the well-known text, Hampel et al, "Robust Statistics : The Approach Based on Influence Functions", Wiley, Prof. Ronchetti is a co-author (with Chris Field) of the monograph Small Sample Asymptotics and has over 60 publications in many areas of robust statistics. Recent papers appeared in Annals of Statistics, Biometrics, J. Amer. Statist. Soc., JRSS B, and Statistics in Medicine, including work with Prof. John Robinson, Univ. Sydney.

Prof. Ronchetti will lead a morning session on recent developments in robust statistics, while the afternoon session will highlight applications. Dr Serigne Lo, visiting Macquarie University, will present recent development of saddle-point estimation methods to semi-Markov flow-graph models of health outcomes with applications in a large randomized clinical trial with nearly seven years of follow up of over 9000 patients following heart attack.

This workshop is intended for a small group of participants interested in discussing applications of recent advances in mathematical and computational methods and related models in classical statistical inference We request speakers to provide sufficient discussion of the theoretical background and medical application of their work to enable participants to consider applying the methods in their own areas.

Visiting researchers interested in attending the session will be very welcome, and presentation of short talks (30 mins) at this session is invited. Inclusion of a small selection of such talks in the program will be at the discretion of the organisers subject to available time, and judgements on relevance and interest.

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