Keynote speakers
We are pleased to announce 2 distinguished keynote speakers for this conference. The President’s Invited Speaker , Per Kragh Andersen (Copenhagen University, DK) will give a conference entitled "The joy of Pseudo-values" and the Keynote Speaker inviter by the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) Geert Molenberghs (KU Leuven University, BE) will give a conference entitled "Handling negative correlation and/or over/underdisperson in gaussian and non-gaussian hierarchical data"Pre-conference courses
The introductory day (Sunday 18) will be dedicated to three full-day courses in biostatistics:- Joint Models under the Bayesian approach by Dimitris Rizopoulos (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL),
- Causal Mediation Analysis by Linda Valeri(Columbia University, US),
- Flexible penalized hazard model for time-to-event data by Mathieu Fauvernier(University of Lyon, FR).
Invited Sessions
The 8 invited sessions retained for 2021, will tackle- Causal inference in continuous time for dense longitudinal data from wearable devices,
- Variance modelling for multilevel data and joint models,
- Modelling the global spread of Covid-19 and impact of interventions,
- Challenges and opportunities for learning from long-term disease registers,
- The best of both worlds: combining deep learning and modelling,
- Selective inference after variable selection,
- Personalised Medicine with Dynamic Predictions,
- Optimal design of longitudinal cluster randomized trials.