International Association of Cancer Registries
Paul W Dickman
Paul C. Lambert
Description: Short course - Statistical methods for population-based cancer survival analysis
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As part of the Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology , a highly experienced faculty will present an intensive 1-week course on the principles, methods and application of statistical methods in population-based cancer survival analysis.
The course will cover central concepts, such as how to estimate and model relative/net survival, as well as recent methodological developments including cure models, flexible parametric models, proportion of expected life lost, and estimating crude probabilities of death. Comparison of alternative methodological approaches (e.g., to estimating relative survival and to modelling relative survival) will will be a focus of the course and participants will get the opportunity to apply and contrast a range of me
Our goal is to provide each participant with individual instruction. A large amount of time will be devoted to exercise sessions where 5 faculty members will be available to work with participants individually or in small groups. We will provide an extensive set of exercises with fully-worked solutions but the exercise sessions will also provide an opportunity for participants to discuss their own research projects with the faculty (and with each other). Participants are welcome to bring a laptop with their
International Association of Cancer Registries
Paul W Dickman
Paul C. Lambert