The Applied Biostatistics Association (TABA) invites you to a seminar and dinner:
Topic: Analysing longitudinal data when the visit times are informative
Presenter: Eleanor Pullenayegum (PhD), Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Sick Kids Hospital
Abstract: Longitudinal data has become common in applied research, and methods such as mixed models and Generalized Estimating Equations (GEEs) are commonplace in the applied statistician’s toolbox. But what if the timings at which visits occur vary among patients in a way that is potentially informative about the outcome of interest? For example, when analyzing disease trajectories from family practice data, what if sicker patients visit more often? You then run the risk of over-estimating the burden of disease, unless you handle your data carefully. This talk will highlight settings under which standard methods (mixed models, GEEs) can be expected to work, settings under which they should be used with caution, and alternative approaches to analysis (weighting, outputation, and joint models). These concepts will be illustrated using examples from paediatric rheumatology and oncology.
When: Tuesday November 24, 2015
6-7 pm seminar
7 pm dinner (optional, but registration required)
Where: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue
Cost: Seminar – free
Dinner – $15 (students $5)
To attend, please RSVP by or on Friday November 20th:
* for seminar only, please email us by clicking here:
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* for seminar and dinner, please email us by clicking here:
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If you plan to attend the dinner, we accept a mailed cheque, Interac email money transfer or cash at the event. If you have to cancel the dinner we request a 48 hour notice otherwise TABA has to pay for it. For Interac email money transfer (not PayPal): do the transfer via your bank to taba.exec@gmail.com and send a separate email via your own email program to us (taba.exec@gmail.com) giving the answer to the security question you used so that we can accept the transfer. For cheques: mail cheque, payable to TABA, to
Lorinda Simms
Eli Lilly Canada Inc.
3650 Danforth Ave
Toronto, ON
M1N 2E8
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