Annual Seminar

Annual Seminar 2024

Title: Statistical model building, variable selection, and competing risks
This event is planned in the framework of our interest group of statistics in transplantation medicine, where we aim to build a community, study best practices and methods in biostatistics and transplantation medicine, and bring together everyone's expertise to help each other learn. 

The seminar or workshop is planned as a yearly scientific event where we hope to foster exchange with both interesting methodological inputs as well as transplantation-related trends and needs.

Topic: The talks will focus on statistical methods used in the investigation of transplantation medicine (or medicine), with special emphasis on model building and competing risks.
Venue: Hybrid; in person at Swisstransplant, Effingerstrasse 1, 3011 Bern or online participation (only morning).
Date: Thursday, 6. June 2024
Register: Sign-up form not available anymore (In-person participation limit of 25 persons; first come first serve)

Program:

Morning organized talks (hybrid):

• 09.00–09.45: Variable selection for statistical models: A comparison of methods
  Theresa Ullmann, Medical University of Vienna

• 10.00–10.45: Competing risks
  Sandra Schmeller, University of Ulm

• 11.00–11.45: Multistate models
  Jan Beyersmann (University of Ulm)

Lunch break (with sandwiches)

Afternoon informal sessions  (in-person only; please propose topics in the registration form)

• 13.00–14.00: Statistics Clinic (opportunity to present an interesting statistical problem followed by a discussion)

  • Jaromil Frossard
    Update on the STCS analysis table (20-30 min.)

  • Simon Schwab
    How long do I wait? Analysis of the national waiting list (20-30 min.)

• 14.30–16.00: Open exchange in groups (topics welcome)
  - Machine Learning
  - Programming, data management specific to medical data, tools to facilitate data extraction
  - Statistics (competing risks), programming (R)
  - Statistics: model selection

Annual Seminar 2023

Title: Statistical methods used in the investigation of transplantation medicine with special emphasis on causal inference
Date: Monday, 5. June 2023
Location: Swisstransplant, Bern

Program:

Morning session:

• 09.00–09.45: Ruth Keogh (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK)
  "An introduction to asking and answering causal questions about transplantation, with examples in lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis" [pdf]

• 10.00–10.45: Alain Amstutz (Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel)
  "Swiss cohort based trial platform to investigate SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in immune-compromised patients: The COrona VaccinE tRiAL pLatform (COVERALL)" [pdf]

• 11.00–11.45: Alexander Leichtle, (Inselspital, University of Bern)
  "Machine Learning and AI based on Laboratory Data" [pdf]

Afternoon session

• 13.00–14.00: Statistics Clinic (opportunity to present an interesting statistical problem followed by a discussion)
  - Recurrent event analysis in non-fatal events
  - Immortal Time bias
  - Transformations

• 14.30–16.00: Open exchange in groups (topics welcome)