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Schedule of 2015-2016 Meetings

Below is the list of meetings planned in the current academic year.


Date

Venue

Topic

Type

Led by

Materials

23 Sept 2015

B-026 Rare Diseases in Drug Development Journal Article

Siew Wan Hee

FDA Guidance: Rare diseases: Common issues in drug development – guidance for industry

EMA guideline: Clinical trials in small populations

20 Oct 2015
A-150

Stepped Wedge Trial Design

Journal Article Siew Wan Hee

Trials Journal special edition: Stepped Wedge Randomized Controlled Trials

Hemming K, Lilford R, Girling AJ. (2014), Stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trials: a generic framework including parallel and multiple-level designs, Statist. Med., 34, 181–196, doi: 10.1002/sim.6325

24 Nov 2015
A-130

Value of Information techniques

Journal articles
Jason Madan

Ades, AE, Lu, G, Claxton, K (2004) Expected Value of Sample Information Calculations in Medical Decision Modeling. Med Decis Making, 24: 207-227, doi:10.1177/0272989X04263162

Eckermann, S and Willan, AR (2007), Expected value of information and decision making in HTA. Health Econ., 16: 195–209. doi: 10.1002/hec.1161
26 Jan 2016 A-039

Adaptive Designs

Journal article Nigel Stallard
Jennison and Turnbull. (2015). Adaptive sample size modification in clinical trials: start small then ask for more? Statistics in Medicine, 34;29:3793-3810. doi: 10.1002/sim.6575

23 Feb 2016

A-039

Propensity Score
 

Journal article
Tom Hamborg

Austin, P. C. (2014), A comparison of 12 algorithms for matching on the propensity score. Statist. Med., 33: 1057–1069, doi: 10.1002/sim.6004

General introduction: Austin, P. C. (2011), An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies. Multivariate Behavioral
Research.
, 46:399–424, doi: 10.1080/00273171.2011.568786

22 Mar 2016

A-039

Inverse propensity score weighting

Journal article

Tom Hamborg

Funk MJ et al (2011): Doubly robust estimation of causal effects. American journal of epidemiology, 173(7):761–767, doi: 10.1093/aje/kwq439

Cancelled - to be rescheduled as a seminar

19 Apr 2016

A-039

Medical Statistics and Ethics

Journal article Jane Hutton

Hutton, JL. (2005) Medical Ethics and Statistics. Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, 5:3137-3148. doi: 10.1002/0470011815.b2a17098

Hutton, JL. (2000) Ethics of medical research in developing countries: the role of international codes of conduct. Stat. Meth. Med. Res, 9:185-206, doi: 10.1177/096228020000900302

Hutton, JL. (2001) Are distinctive ethical principles required for cluster randomized controlled trials?. Statist. Med., 20: 473–488. doi: 10.1002/1097-0258(20010215)20:3

17 May 2016

A-039

Maximum
likelihood estimation in adaptive designs

Journal article
Peter Kimani

Graf, A. C., Gutjahr, G., and Brannath, W. (2016) Precision of maximum likelihood estimation in adaptive designs. Statist. Med., 35: 922–941. doi: 10.1002/sim.6761

21 June 2016

A-039

Case-control study

Journal article
Noel McCarthy

19 July 2016

A-041

Inverse propensity score weighting

Journal article Tom Hamborg

Funk MJ et al (2011): Doubly robust estimation of causal effects. American journal of epidemiology, 173(7):761–767, doi: 10.1093/aje/kwq439

Kreif N et al (2013) Regression-adjusted matching and double-robust methods for estimating average treatment effects in health economic evaluation. Health services & outcomes research methodology, 13 (2-4). pp. 174-202

All meetings take place 11am - 12noon unless stated otherwise.

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