The following list contains announcements for conferences and workshops or details past ones.

Australian Statistical Conference 2008

Date: 30 June - 3 Jul 2008
Location: Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne
Conference website

The BCA is organising a day of this conference (Wed 2 July) with a full program of invited speakers on biostatistics, including Professor Simon Thompson of the MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge (U.K.) and Dr Miguel Hernán, Harvard School of Public Health. The following day (Thursday) will have invited sessions on Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics, and there will be contributed sessions on biostatistical methods on other days.

One day workshop: Graphs for Causal Inference in Epidemiology
Date: 6 July
Location: Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

The BCA is joining with the Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) and Statistical Society of Australia to organise this workshop, immediately preceding the AEA/PHAA annual conference. The presenters at the workshop will be Miguel Hernán and Sonia Hernández-Díaz of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard University School of Public Health.

2008 Population Health Congress (AEA)

Date: 6-9 Jul 2008
Location: Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

Joint Scientific Meetings of AEA, AFPHM, PHAA, and AHPA
www.aea.asn.au/annualmeeting.htm

 

Cluster Randomized Trials / 2 Day Workshop

Date: 6-7 Dec 2007
Location: The University of Sydney
www.ascthegeorgeinstitute.org/cluster

Biometrics by the Beach

The International Biometric Society Australasian Region conference C offs Harbour, NSW www.biometrics.org.au/conf

For program details click here

Multilevel Modelling Workshop
The 5th Australian Biostatistics Workshop
The BCA and the Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA, www.aea.asn.au ) held a one day workshop in Multilevel Models in Hobart on Sunday 26th August 2007 , immediately preceding the 2007 Joint Scientific Meetings of AEA/IEA-Western Pacific Region in Hobart, 26-29 August 2007. Click here to view the presentations (pdf).

The principal speaker was Professor Alastair Leyland, who heads the program on Measuring Health, Variations in Health and the Determinants of Health at the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow, UK. His recent research has focussed on inequalities in mortality in Scotland and he is one of the principal investigators on the National Evaluation of Sure Start. Professor Leyland has extensive research program in the application of multilevel modelling to health data, and has given a number of training courses on this topic with colleagues in Europe. Further details can be found at professor Leyland's website:

http://www.msoc-mrc.gla.ac.uk/staff.php?staffID=AL

During his visit to Hobart Professor Leyland was also a plenary speaker at the Joint Scientific Meetings of AEA/IEA-Western Pacific Region.

The workshop began with an introduction to multilevel data structures, fitting multilevel models and interpreting the results. The afternoon was devoted to example applications of multilevel modelling in epidemiology, including some invited presentations from local speakers. There was a session demonstrating software for multilevel modelling and a discussion session later in the day.

The 1st Australia and NZ Stata Users Group Meeting  was held in Adelaide, SA on Sunday 10 October 2004, just prior to the annual meeting of the Australasian Epidemiological Association.

The IBC XXII 2004 International Biometric Conference in parallel with the ASC 2004 Australian Statistical Conference will be held in Cairns, QLD between 11 and 16 July 2004.

The 4th Australian Biostatistics Workshop: a 2-day BCA Workshop was held at the University of Melbourne on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 October.
Presentations