Programme

 

EUROPEAN STATISTICAL FORUM

November 24th 2011 - Hotel Melià – Milan

AGENDA

SCIENTIFIC BOARD:

Lisa Squassante - Pharmacometrics Leader, APTUIT

Giacomo Mordenti - Senior Expert Biostatistician, Merck Serono S.A. - Genève
 

08:45 - 09:15  Registration

09:20 - 09:30  Welcome

09:30 - 10:05 Some thoughts on the planning of survival studies
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                       Hans Ulrich Burger – Biostatistics, Hoffmann - La Roche Basel

10:05 - 10:40  Competing Risks Analysis   read abstract >>
                       Luigi Santoro – Biostatistician and Staff Scientist, European
                       Institute of Oncology

10:40 - 10:55  Coffee Break

10:55 - 11:30  Issues in Sample Size Estimation for Trials with a Survival
                       Endpoint read abstract >>
                       Steven Julious - Medical Statistics Group, School of Health and
                       Related Research, University of Sheffield

11:30 - 12:05  “Sample size for survival trials allowing for non-proportional
                       hazards, loss to follow-up and cross-over”  read abstract >>
                       Sophie Barthel - Statistical Consultant, FSB Medical LTD

12:05 - 12:40  Dependent censoring and the use of non-parametric
                       multiple imputation   read abstract >>
                       Euan Macpherson – Senior Statistician, Astra Zeneca UK Limited

12:40 - 13:40  Lunch

13:40 - 14:15  Survival analysis models on time-dependent covariates -
                       bivariate failure-time model with one hidden failure.  
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                       Ladislav Pecen – Senior Statistician, International Clinical
                       Research Center, St. Anne’s University Hospital - Senior       
                       Statistician, SIRO Clinpharm

14:15 - 14:50  Bayesian Study Design for Survival Endpoints: Enhancing
                       decision making in early clinical development
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                       Rachel Moate - Principal Statistician, Quanticante

14:50 - 15:25  Adaptive designs for clinical trials with a survival endpoint                         read abstract >>
                       Heinz Schmidli – Statistical Methodology, Novartis

15:25 - 15:40  Coffee Break

15:40 - 16:15  Propensity score methods in survival analysis 
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                       Rossella Miglio – Department of Statistical Sciences, Bologna
                       University

16:15 - 16:50  Detecting prognosting factor in Breast Cancer
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                       Thomas Zwingers, Cros NT

16:50 - 17:00  Conclusion