The 4th Australian Biostatistics Workshop

Held on Mon 8 - Tues 9 December 2003 at The University of Melbourne
The organisers would like to thank everyone who participated: speakers, session chairs, delegates et al. The workshop was a great success, with all feedback being extremely positive, indicating a strong interest in biostatistics in the health sciences We are grateful to the participants who completed the evaluation forms. Your responses are a valuable aid to the success of future workshops. We had a great 2 days and hope to see you at the 5th Biostatistics Workshop.

Program

Workshop Presentations
We regret that for reasons of confidentiality of data, some of the speakers were not able to make their presentations available for download.
Practical surrogacy: using surrogate markers in clinical trials	Graham Byrnes Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne

Issues concerning adjustment for baseline covariates in randomised trials	Andrew Forbes Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Meta-analysis of diagnostic test studies: Summary ROC methods	Petra Macaskill School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Propensity scores: an introduction	Ian Gordon Statistical Consulting Centre, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne

Methods for adjusting for measurement error	Ian Marschner Asia- AfME Biometrics Centre, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group

Confounding, causes and counterfactuals. Estimating the effect of HAART in the Swiss HIV cohort study	Jonathan Sterne Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol

Genetic meta-analysis and Mendelian randomisation	Jonathan Sterne Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol

The Workshop Committee: John Carlin Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Andrew Forbes Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University Erica Jobling Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia (BCA)

Partners: