Course: Statistical Practice in Epidemiology, 30 May to 4 June, 2025, in Tartu, Estonia

Course in STATISTICAL PRACTICE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY USING R

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• Tartu, Estonia,Monday 2 June to Friday 6 June 2025;

see https://bendixcarstensen.com/SPE/

 

Deadline for application: 1 April, 2025.

 

The course is aimed at epidemiologists and statisticians who wish to use R for statistical modelling and analysis of epidemiological data.

The course requires basic knowledge of epidemiological concepts and study types. These will only be briefly reviewed, whereas the more advanced epidemiological and statistical concepts will be treated in depth.

 

Contents:

History of R. Language. Objects. Functions.

Interface to other dataformats. Dataframes.

Tabulation of data.

Logistic regression for case-control-studies.

Poisson regression for follow-up studies.

Causal inference.

Parametrization of models.

Graphics in R.

Graphical reporting of results.

Time-splitting & SMR.

Nested and matched case-control studies.

Case-cohort studies.

Survival analysis in continuous time.

Competing risk models and relative survival.

Multistate models.

 

The Epi package for epidemiological analysis in R will be introduced. The course will be mainly practically oriented with more than half the time at the computer.

 

Faculty:

– Krista Fischer, Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Tartu, Estonia.

– Esa Läärä, Professor Emeritus of Biometry, University of Oulu, Finland.

– Janne Pitkäniemi, Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Tampere, Finland, and Director of Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki, Finland.

– Bendix Carstensen, Senior Statistician, Steno Diabetes Center, Gentoft, Denmark. Maintainer of the Epi package.

– Martyn Plummer, Professor of Statistics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Member of the R core team.

– Damien Georges, Senior Research Assistant, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

 

Price: 1000 EUR (academic); 1200 EUR (commercial)

Includes tuition, course material, lunch, coffee breaks and social events.

Excludes transport, accommodation and dinners.

The course is a self-supporting entity, and there are NO grants or stipends available for travel or participation.

 

Application: Send an e-mail which briefly states your qualifications in epidemiology and statistics, to the course coordinator

Anastassia Kolde (anastassia.kolde at ut.ee).

Deadline: 1 April, 2025

After the application deadline we will send you the information regarding the registration and accommodation.

 

Further information at: bendixcarstensen.com/SPE